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Fifteen years of vestibular implant research in humans

1 May 2017 | | ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-Otology
Implants: it’s all in the balance! Prof Guyot and his team give us an update on their research in addressing bilateral vestibular deficits via an implant. Doctors are often unaware that people, even young, may lose vestibular function on both...
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Ramifications of the pandemic on acute paediatric mastoiditis: a national UK audit

2 September 2022 | | COVID-19, Neurotology, Otology | COVID, acute mastoiditis, antibiotic, paediatric, surgery
Acute mastoiditis is a common presentation in the paediatric population across ENT services worldwide. An initial expectation of a rise in the numbers of acute mastoiditis associated with the initial findings of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus presence in middle ear in...

Inter-aural hearing preservation in cochlear implantation

1 March 2019 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Auditory Implants | Binaural, Cochlear implant, Hearing Preservation, Paediatric, Technique
Hearing preservation during cochlear implantation is becoming increasingly important, although results can be unpredictable. NICE are in the process of updating their guidance in the UK and it is possible that those with better hearing than the current candidates will...

Help or hinder: how and why do SLTs make clinical decisions around swallowing?

1 July 2018 | | Australia, Dysphagia, speech-language pathology, stroke, treatment
Dysphagia is a relatively common consequence of stroke, with estimates between 50% and 60% of people presenting with swallowing dysfunction following stroke. It is associated with pneumonia, malnutrition and dehydration which in turn lead to increased length of hospital admission,...

OTO-104 in noise-induced and cisplatin-induced hearing loss

1 November 2016 |
These two animal studies report on potential new applications for intra-tympanic OTO-104, a slow-release hydrogel formulation of dexamethasone that is currently being used in a Europe-wide randomised trial for Ménière’s disease. In the first paper, guinea pigs were given a...

Review: Cochlear Implantation in SSD?

1 March 2015 | | Binaural hearing, Cochlear implantation, Contra-lateral routing of signals, Hearing aid, Single-sided deafness, Spatial listening, Unilateral hearing loss
Contra lateral routing of signals (CROS) using hearing aids and bone conduction devices has been the conventionally accepted modality for the treatment of single sided hearing impairment. The CROS hearing aid has been found to improve speech understanding in noise,...

Chronic facial pain: types and long-term treatment

1 March 2015 | | ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Otology
This publication discusses the details and differences between chronic tension type headache and migraine and followed a cohort of 240 patients over 36 months. The authors applied strict criteria to distinguish between chronic tension headache and migraine, these essentially being...

HPV and ENT; should we vaccinate boys?

1 January 2017 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA-Paediatrics
David Black and Charlie Hall reiterate Vin Paleri’s pleas for a common sense evidence-based approach by those who allocate healthcare resources to the now urgent issue of HPV-related disease. They discuss the merits of different vaccines and the need for...

Ronald G Macbeth – the instigator of BACO

1 July 2015 | | ENTA-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,...

Medical Journals and The Journal of Laryngology and Otology

4 November 2021 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA-Otology
Medical journals have a fascinating history. One early journal, The Lancet, was founded in 1823 and its first Editor, London surgeon Thomas Wakley (1795-1862), had a turbulent life. He lived in an era where quackery was rife and where the...

The barber-surgeon of Avebury

1 November 2019 | | ENTA-ENT
On a stroll through Neolithic Britain, Seville oranges on a quay in Dundee, marmalade and 14th century coins, Chris Potter unravels the story of a man (a surgeon?) seemingly crushed by a falling 13-tonne stone. But things are not quite...

Promoting human rights of deaf communities in low-resource settings

4 May 2021 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Stigma and misconceptions about deafness are serious impediments for many deaf people to realise rights and potential in some of the most challenging situations globally. Around 430 million people are estimated to live with moderate or higher levels of hearing...