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Evidence based practice in paediatric audiology

1 January 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Audiology, like most of the health sciences professions, has been working on integrating evidence-based practice principles since the mid-1990s [1]. Professional organisations and regulatory colleges have produced evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, disseminated them to audiologists and collaborated with practitioners to...

Integrating technology into audiological rehabilitation programmes

1 July 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
In the future, the rehabilitation of adults with hearing loss is likely to involve modern information technology. Using the Internet in the audiological rehabilitation process might be a cost-effective way to include additional rehabilitation components by guiding hearing aid users...

A psychophysical perspective on single-sided deafness and its treatment by cochlear implants

1 September 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Auditory Implants
Bob Carlyon gives us a psychophysical perspective on the hearing benefits that can and cannot be achieved for patients with single-sided deafness with a cochlear implant, and discusses some of the challenges in maximising the effectiveness of the treatment. He...

Clinical utility and practical interpretation of the video head impulse test

1 November 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
The head impulse test (HIT) is an essential bedside test to detect peripheral vestibular deficits. The video head impulse test (vHIT) is a new tool quantifying the HIT. In this article Maria Heuberger and colleagues point out the clinical utility...

A person-centred approach to telehealth

1 March 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
“The time when telehealth was a remote, abstract concept has come to an end”. Deborah Ferrari and Lise Lotte Bundesen discuss how to advance person-centred care in hearing rehabilitation through online tools and training. The time when telehealth was a...

The effects of hormonal changes across menstrual cycle on high frequency auditory thresholds

1 July 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Physiological changes during the menstrual cycle are well documented; do these changes extend to the auditory system? Lalsa Shilpa Perepa and Rewa Indurkar delve into the literature to find the evidence. Menstrual cycle refers to a series of changes that...

Transnasal oesophagoscopy (TNO) and balloon dilatation under a local anaesthesia

1 March 2017 | | ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Many of us are becoming more and more familiar with the use of transnasal oesophagoscopy. It has a number of well-described uses in the outpatient setting and is well tolerated by our patients. Yakubu Karagama describes taking this technique a...

A quick and simple approach to correcting the deviated nasal septum

1 January 2018 | | ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
Nasal septal surgery is a very common procedure that we tend to learn as junior trainees. Most of us still find that we have a lot to learn with every deviated septum that we encounter. There is a range of...

Nasal septal perforation repair

1 March 2018 | | ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
Nasal septal perforation repair has traditionally been a great challenge. Many surgical techniques are described, however the success rate of closure has often been poor. Experience from the use of pedicled vascularised mucosal flaps in skull base surgery has been...

Botulinum toxin injection in spasmodic dysphonia

1 May 2018 | | ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Spasmodic dysphonia is a rare neurological voice disorder, which is often missed by the inexperienced ear. There is no laboratory test or investigation to diagnose this condition therefore, it is best diagnosed by listening to the patient’s voice. Laryngeal endoscopy...

Endoscopic arytenoid abduction lateropexy for bilateral vocal cord paralysis in neonates

1 July 2018 | | ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
We are delighted to publish a further update on the use of the technique for vocal fold lateralisation in neonates from Laszlo Rovo and Shahram Madani, who have previously informed us of this new technique [1]. These cases are rare...

Recurrent respiratory papilloma treatment in the office

1 September 2018 | | ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
In this interesting new article, Markus Hess and Susanne Fleischer describe their technique for managing recurrent laryngeal papillomatosis in an outpatient setting using channelled endoscopes. The recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) of the larynx is a chronic HPV-associated viral disease. Clinical...