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COACH calls for participants

29 January 2024

The Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit has renewed a call for volunteers to take part in its COACH programme. The UK-wide trail aims to generate evidence about the use of hearing aids.

ENT and the Titanic

6 July 2020 | Emma S Hogg, Ray Clarke | ENTA - ENT

One otolaryngologist who perished on the ill-fated voyage of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912 was Dr Ernest Moraweck, a prominent physician with an interest in ENT (and ophthalmology), living in Frankfort, Kentucky, USA [1]. Moraweck was an inventive...

From battlefield to homefront: how the First World War shifted perceptions of deafness

7 January 2025 | Jemma Lakmaker | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic

The First World War marked a pivotal moment in the understanding and treatment of hearing loss and deafness. Prior to the war, deafness had been largely attributed to congenital causes. This view was influenced by a negative eugenic Darwinist ideology...

Endoscopic airway interventions in children

6 January 2023 | Jennifer C Magill, Michelle E Wyatt | ENTA - Paediatrics

Open surgery for paediatric airway pathologies such as subglottic stenosis was hailed as revolutionary when many of today’s paediatric ORL specialists were in training. Equipment, facilities and training has moved on and the high-quality optics in modern endoscopes, coupled with...

The history of bone-conduction devices

3 November 2023 | Ad Snik, Martijn JH Agterberg | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants

The evolution of bone-conduction hearing devices from the 1400s’ rudimentary designs to today’s advanced models has greatly improved hearing for individuals with conductive or mixed hearing loss. This article delves into the history and technical advancements over the years, as...

Endoscopic stapes surgery

14 April 2021 | Vikranth Visvanathan, Arunachalam Iyer | ENTA - Otology

Traditionally middle ear surgery, including stapes surgery, has been performed using the operating microscope. In this article the authors describe their experience with endoscopic middle surgery and share some of its advantages. Trans-canal endoscopic ear surgery (TEES) is now a...

What’s new in electrophysiology?

1 May 2016 | Steven Bell (Prof) | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic

Steve Bell is a lecturer at the University of Southampton and a member of the British Society of Audiology’s (BSA) Special Interest Group in Electrophysiology. Given the current surge in interest in electrophysiology, both in rehabilitation and diagnostic arenas, Steve...

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

1 November 2016 | David J Houghton | ENTA - General

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...

Developing an Innovation for ENT – from Idea to Market: how ‘e-i’ did it

1 March 2014 | Ajith Paulose George, Chris Coulson, Mark Prince, Simon Pargeter, Matthew Tulley | ENTA - General

Background endoscope-i (e-i) Ltd was incorporated into Companies House on December 3rd, 2012 following eight months of developing our first project, a simple iPhone adapter for endoscopes. Of the three founding shareholders, two are ENT surgeons and one a lecturer...

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