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Pomegranate juice as an otoprotective agent

1 November 2014 | | Otology
Chemotherapeutic agents such as cisplatin, given alongside irradiation, offer a survival advantage in head and neck cancer. Some patients often complain bitterly about side-effects of their treatment, one of which is ototoxicity. In this paper, the authors propose the use...

The DOSO outcome measure

1 March 2019 | | Audiology - Adult | Hearing aids, outcome measure, self-report
The subjective outcome measures are a crucial element of the auditory rehabilitation process for hearing aid fitting. Authors hypothesised that normative data used for the device-orientated subjective outcome (DOSO) were no longer valid for new hearing aids technologies (2015-era technologies)....

Remembering the first word first or the last word first: what does this mean about the interaction between language and short term memory?

1 May 2017 |
This article reviews theories of how verbal short term memory (STM) interacts with other language functions and thus how semantics or phonology of target items can influence what individuals remember. The authors describe examples from the research literature that have...

Music and cochlear implants

5 June 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants, ENT, Otology, Paediatric ENT
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...

European power women in otolaryngology: a focus on Laura Viani, Ireland’s first female otolaryngologist

1 September 2019 | | ENT, Auditory Implants
Professor Laura Viani is a Consultant Otolaryngologist at Beaumont Hospital and Temple Street University Children’s Hospital and has been a member of Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland for the last 17 years. As the first female...

In conversation with Professor Graeme Clark

1 September 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants, ENT, Otology, Paediatric ENT
As we celebrate the cochlear implant, we celebrate an amazing work of innovative biomedical engineering that is a life-changer to many recipients around the world. We take for granted the arduous journey of the cochlear implant since its conception. Eric...

History of photography in otorhinolaryngology in the 19th Century

1 September 2015 | | ENT
In this final article of the History of ENT edition, João Clode introduces us to the history of medical photography in the 19th century, giving us some fascinating early examples of otorhinolaryngology photographs. Medical photography – the early years The...

Near-miss in otolaryngology head and neck surgery

1 September 2018 | | 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....

COVID-19 in China: the experience of an ENT team

30 April 2020 | | ENT, COVID-19
In January, we first heard of COVID-19. As we currently do battle with it on our own shores, colleagues in China share their story with us as life there slowly and cautiously begins to return to normal and the country...

Secrets of the listening brain: what measuring the brain can tell us about hearing aid use and more

26 June 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Neurotology
In a typical audiology clinic, on any given day, a person is waiting to see an audiologist to get a hearing aid (HA). It might have taken over 10 years to get to this point of considering a hearing aid(s)...

In conversation with Professor Patrick Gullane: My life in Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery

1 September 2014 | | ENT
Fellowship RCSEng 2009. Patrick, as you have recently ‘stepped down’ as Chairman and Chief of ORL-HNS at Toronto General Hospital, what next? Firstly, so often I have been asked why I selected this career path, from a quote by Johnny...

COSM 2019 (Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meetings)

1 May 2019 -5 May 2019
Continue on for the full reports from the individual societies at COSM by Sujana Chandrasekhar, Keith G Trimble, Greg Randolph and Maura Cosetti. COSMReport by Sujana Chandrasekhar, ENT & Allergy Associates, New York, NY, USA There are two major US...