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The sleep nasendoscopy learning curve

1 July 2017 | | DISE, Drug-induced sedation endoscopy, Obstructive sleep apnea hypoapnea syndrome, Sleep disordered breathing, Sleep endoscopy, VOTE classification
There seems to be no accepted way of surgically assessing patients with sleep disordered breathing (SDB). Because of this, clinicians fall roughly into three camps: those who just use one operation for all patients, those who have given up surgery...
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Audiology: Science to Practice – Fourth Edition

5 July 2022 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic
Kramer and Brown have done it again with their fourth edition of Audiology: Science to Practice. This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to audiology with both clinical and practical information. This book is mainly aimed at those who are studying...

Leadership and maximising resources: the view from Brazil and Venezuela

1 September 2019 | | ENT
Norma de Oliveira Penido, Priscila Bogar from Brazil and Sajidxa Mariño from Venezuela, leaders in otolaryngology, discuss their career journeys, the advantages and disadvantages they exerienced along the way, and the current state of ENT practice for women in South...

Surgeons and swearing

1 July 2017 | | ENT, Head and Neck
We will all know colleagues who have raised the act of swearing to an art form; just as Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It could cut a workmate in half with a well-placed swear word, surgeons can be equally...

Multi-channel cochlear implants: past, present and future

1 September 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants, ENT, Otology
Forty years since the first multi-channel devices were implanted, who better than Ingeborg Hochmair, who has been a key figure throughout their evolution, to offer her thoughts on the past, present and future of multi-channel cochlear implants? Read on for...

Central auditory changes in SNHL

1 May 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Otology
Robert Harrison discusses some of the most obvious ways in which cochlear hearing loss has central consequences. It is convenient to classify hearing loss according to the most obvious site of lesion, for example, conductive, cochlear, retro-cochlear, or central hearing...

Developing ENT and audiology services in Southern Africa

3 November 2022 | | Audiology - Adult, ENT
Much has been said of the paucity of ENT and its related services in low- and middle-income countries. This article from a retired paediatric otolaryngologist discusses the progress that has been made locally to redress these health inequalities. He has...

Ronald G Macbeth – the instigator of BACO

1 July 2015 | | ENT
The structure of BACO has changed dramatically since the first conference in 1963, but the fundamental elements of academic excellence, instructional sessions and social events have been common threads. Andrew Freeland, who worked with Ronald Macbeth, the instigator of BACO,...

What’s new in protecting hearing?

1 May 2016 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic
Preventing an avoidable hearing loss before it begins would be the public health dream. In this article Kathleen Campbell takes us through one option that is showing the potential to fulfil that ambition. Kathleen explains the development of a preventative...

Measuring client-centred outcomes in audiology: towards a parsimonious solution

1 January 2018 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic
From an international driver to the client-centred care model; in this article Anthony Hogan explores outcome measures for individual goal setting and measuring those outcomes. Introduction When people present for hearing help, they are typically looking for solutions to the...

Incoming RSM Presidents share their plans for the year

8 October 2021
Section of Laryngology & RhinologyMichael Kuo – PresidentVictoria Possamai – Honorary Secretary Another academic year for the RSM beckons. The programmes that Tim Woolford and Guri Sandhu presented, culminating in the first ‘face to face’ ENT meeting this year, both...

Globe trotter: Vasant Oswal launches memoir

2 June 2022
Vasant Oswal was brought up in an era when public transport in India relied on horses. From humble beginnings in Pune in the western state of Maharashtra, he went on to become a pioneer in laser surgery in the larynx. He would also receive a Fellowship by Election at the Royal College of Surgeons, not to mention serving as Editor in Chief of ENT and Audiology News.