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Oral versus oral and intratympanic corticosteroid treatment for sudden sensorineural hearing loss

1 May 2019 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, Paediatric ENT | CHEER Network, practice guidelines, steroids, sudden sensorineural hearing loss
The 2012 American Academy of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) clinical practice guidelines on sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) have two statements that address steroid use. Statement eight indicates an option to offer corticosteroid as initial treatment for...

Early ENT involvement can improve long-term quality of life after temporal bone fractures

1 September 2015 |
Sports injuries and road traffic accidents are common causes of head injuries, with 18-40% of skull base fractures involving the temporal bone. Often these patients have other more life threatening injuries so ENT intervention is delayed or absent. Facial palsy,...

Sinus airflow after FESS using models and fluid dynamics

2 November 2020 | | ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
This is a very interesting study from Australia and New Zealand looking at flow of air into the nose and sinuses after FESS surgery. There is plenty of data regarding computational fluid dynamics for preoperative cases but not much for...

Intratympanic steroids in Ménière's disease: what’s the evidence?

2 September 2022 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Otology
The days of drastic surgery for Ménière's disease are long gone. We know that intratympanic injections can deliver high doses of medication to the inner ear with minimal discomfort and minimal risk. But how do we choose from the myriad...

Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS) - Part 1

1 July 2016 | | ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
In the first of a two-part series, Martyn Barnes and colleagues discuss indications for functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS), the surgical objectives and techniques, patient expectations and the risks of surgery. In part two, the authors will discuss how to...

In conversation with Shusheng Gong and Shahed Quraishi on ENT Masterclass<sup>®</sup> China

1 March 2017 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
ENT Masterclass® China was a landmark event that brought an international training resource to Beijing. Profs Shusheng Gong and Shahed Quraishi discuss the organisation of this event, the training pathway in China, and the setup of a typical ENT academic...

From India to Bonnie Scotland

1 March 2018 | | ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Paediatrics
Not many people know that one of the UK’s first cochlear implant surgeons was Raj Singh, OBE, an Indian immigrant whose passions for otology and technology led him to found the Scottish Cochlear Implant Programme, and the Help to Hear...

Development of the iAudiometer™

1 March 2014 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Why the iAudiometer™? We have developed six versions of a new software called iAudiometer™ that performs an array of different audiometric tests using an iPad with standard transducers (TDH-39 headphones, B-71 BC, aural domes, or inserts) (Figure 1; Table 1)....

Setting up a robotic surgical practice: view from India

4 November 2021 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
Transoral robotic surgery has an established role in head and neck cancer surgery. But how easy is it to set up a service in a resource-constrained environment? Gouri Pantvaidya and Ameya Pai give us a view from the Indian subcontinent....

Out of Africa: Audiovannah audiology clinic in Zimbabwe

1 March 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
Audiovannah reception area. In 2015 two Danish audiologists, Jenny Pedersen and Nicolai Pedersen, relocated to Zimbabwe and opened a full service audiology clinic (Audiovannah) in the capital city of Harare. The focus has been to give back as much as...

ENT in this issue...BACO 2020

1 January 2020 |
Emma Stapleton, MBChB, FRCS (ORL-HNS), Consultant Otolaryngologist, Cochlear Implant and Skull Base Surgeon, Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK. E: emmastapleton@doctors.org.uk Twitter: @otolaryngolofox Are you going to BACO?” was the question on everyone’s lips. The year was 2006, I was a junior...

Freud’s Friend, Fliess

13 November 2019 | | ENTA-ENT
Wilhelm Fliess, a Berlin rhinologist, was for many years Sigmund Freud’s closest friend and confidant. He was born in Poland in 1858. In 1887, he visited Vienna for postgraduate studies, and met the famous psychoanalyst, Freud [1]. They were immediate...