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What does functional neuroimaging tell us about tinnitus?

24 May 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Imaging, ENTA-Neurotology, ENTA-Tinnitus
One of the most common causes of tinnitus is noise exposure, be that either cumulative day-to-day exposure over a lifetime or experience of acute noise trauma such as a loud concert or shooting incident. Observational data indicate that up to...

Chronic cough hypersensitivity syndrome

1 May 2015 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
We all have patients who give us a ‘heartsink’ feeling; for many of us, the coughing patient is exactly such a situation. In this overview, Bhaskar Ram and Sangeeta Maini outline their approach to diagnosis. Declan Costello, Editor. Introduction Chronic...

Chronic rhinosinusitis management: back to the future?

1 July 2016 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
Immunology is a dim and distant medical school memory to many ENT surgeons, but the increasingly complex immunology of chronic rhinosinusitis is fascinating (honestly!). Medical management options in CRS no longer just involves saline and steroids, and we need to...

ENT and evidence-based medicine: How do they benefit each other?

1 November 2016 | | ENTA-ENT
How do we assess evidence, and how should ENT surgeons use EBM? Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is the practice of medicine based upon high quality scientific research. There are several formal definitions of EBM, the most widely quoted being that of...

Systemic agents in thyroid cancer

1 July 2017 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
For those patients who have disseminated or unresectable thyroid cancer, Dr Arabella Hunt and Dr Kate Newbold review systemic treatments, their differences, toxicities and outcomes. Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy. It is subdivided into differentiated (papillary, follicular...

Near-miss in otolaryngology head and neck surgery

1 September 2018 | | ENTA-ENT
It is recommended by John Fenton that we as a specialty need to embrace the concept of, take responsibility for and learn from all near-miss events, rather than our traditional haphazard approach of an occasional educational anecdote or case report....

What is Transnasal Humidified Rapid-Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange (THRIVE)?

1 May 2018 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
THRIVE is a physiological mechanism for oxygenating and ventilating patients who are under general anaesthesia and who have diminished or absent respiratory effort [1]. Classical ventilation requires bulk flow of gases into and out of the lungs driven by chest...

New ventilation technique FCV: improvement for patient, anaesthetist/intensivist and surgeon

1 September 2020 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Per-oral surgical access to the larynx can be hampered by the presence of an endotracheal tube. Various systems have been developed for tubeless ventilation, but these all carry a risk of aerosolisation of secretions with obvious inherent risks. We hear...

A medical student’s perspective on the future of obstructive sleep apnoea management

17 June 2021 | | ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Obstructive sleep apnoea remains an immensely challenging condition to treat. Many treatments have been used over the years, but no single management strategy has proven significantly better than the others. We hear about some technological innovations in the field of...

Cochlear implants: recipient stories

1 September 2017 | ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Paediatrics
The most powerful evidence for the remarkable achievements made with cochlear implants over 40 years comes from the life-changing, personal stories of those who have benefited from the technology. James Rylance I first noticed a problem with hearing when I...

Pre-clinical development of magnetic delivery of therapy to middle and inner ears

1 March 2014 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
Why are we developing this technology? A key problem in drug delivery is getting the therapy to the right place in the body, which is especially challenging for targets that are small, deep and are protected or surrounded by anatomical...

In conversation with Harvey Coates

1 November 2016 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Paediatrics
Indigenous health would remain a Cinderella part of our speciality were it not for the work of a few outstanding pioneers. Kelvin Kong speaks to one of them: Professor Harvey Coates AO. Harvey Coates is a paediatric otolaryngologist and clinical...