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WCA Innovation Prize

8 November 2024
At the World Congress of Audiology in Paris in September, a special prize was announced for the best innovation that addresses an unmet medical need. Candidates were selected from domains such as clinical trials or medical devices, and given five minutes and five slides to pitch in front of an international jury of researchers, clinicians, economists and industry professionals.

Hearing loss in the workplace

1 March 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
It is probably accurate to say that most jobs today can be effectively performed by people who have hearing loss. In this article Dr Sam Trychin outlines some of the major issues which should be considered in regard to hearing...

Aetiology, investigation and acute management of sudden sensorineural hearing loss

1 September 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
The cause of a single sided sensorineural hearing loss has a wide variety of aetiologies. This review, by Edwin Halliday, looks specifically at the differential diagnostic causes of a sudden sensorineural hearing loss, the relevant investigations and the management should...

The effects of polypharmacy in the elderly

1 November 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Another pill to cure the ill? Alec Lapira discusses the warning signs of polypharmacy in the elderly population. Polypharmacy in the elderly Polypharmacy – defined as the use of five or more medications – occurs in 20–37% of older people...

Elasticated retraction in head and neck surgery – a trainee’s perspective

1 May 2017 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
The effectiveness of surgical technique and satisfactory outcome is greatly dependent on good surgical exposure. Retraction requires adequate traction and counter-traction of tissues in order to expose the tissue or organ under scrutiny for the surgeon. This is a universal...

Salivary duct clipping for drooling

1 November 2017 | | ENTA-Head & Neck
Drooling can be a challenging problem to manage in paediatric ENT. The variety of medical and surgical treatments suggests that there is no gold standard treatment. Nicola Stobbs and Ravi Thevasagayam describe an approach to ligating the salivary ducts. Drooling...

Current considerations on neural development and hearing loss in young children

1 January 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Neurotology
The young child’s brain has the ability to change in response to new stimuli, resulting in learning, the foundation of adaptive and intelligent behaviour. For children with hearing loss, a reduction or lack of auditory stimuli can have a ‘lifelong...

Music and cochlear implants

5 June 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Paediatrics
Introduction The introduction of multichannel cochlear implants (CIs) in the early 1980s provided children and adults with severe and profound hearing losses with greatly improved speech perception skills. In this paper, however, I am going to focus on an area...

The ‘bus stop’ incision for bone-anchored hearing aid placement: a step-by-step approach to soft tissue preparation

1 January 2017 | | ENTA-Neurotology, ENTA-Otology
There have been many descriptions of soft tissue preparation in the era when subcutaneous tissue was routinely removed with the Nijmegen technique [1] or with the dermatome [2]. More descriptions continue to evolve with the advent of tissue preservation techniques,...

Superior semicircular canal dehiscence: transmastoid obliteration

1 September 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders, ENTA-Otology
Sometimes patients with dizziness turn out to have slightly more unusual causes of their problem. Thomas Milner and Georgios Kontorinis describe their technique for managing patients who have a diagnosis of superior canal dehiscence as an identified cause of their...

Partial reconstruction of the pinna

1 September 2016 | | ENTA-Otology
Reconstruction of the pinna is one of the most challenging procedures in facial plastic surgery. Although there has been significant progress since one of the earliest recorded descriptions by Sushruta in 600 BC, the complex three-dimensional structure of the pinna...

Cutting burr otoplasty and conchal setback to correct prominent pinna: a ‘step by step approach’

1 January 2015 | | ENTA-Otology
Prominent ears can cause significant social and psychological effects on an individual. The two most common anatomical defects for a prominent pinna are an underdeveloped anti-helical fold and / or enlarged conchal bowl. In the senior author’s practice over the...