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Stimulation for a good night’s sleep

1 July 2016 | Suzanne Biers | obstructive sleep apnea, neuromodulation, hypoglossal nerve stimulation

This article was an interesting read. It is an update from the authors’ original paper printed in the NEJM in 2014 regarding the results of an implantable pulse generator (IPG) for stimulating the hypoglossal nerve in response to respiration. This...

Early cochlear implant activation and its effects on the cochlea

3 March 2021 | Robert Nash | ENTA-Auditory Implants, Paediatric ENT | Electrode impedance, Fibrosis, Minimal invasive cochlear implantation technique, One-day activation

In this article, Alhabib et al consider the changes to electrode impedance with early device activation (day one) compared to conventional activation (day 30). Activation at day 30 is a cautious approach, which has been popular for many years. However,...

Surgery plus radiotherapy keeps the helical keloid scar away

8 January 2024 | Shivanchan Rajmohan | Otology | Electron beam, Keloid, Keystone flap, Perforator flap, Radiotherapy, Single fraction

Keloid scars lead to significant psychological and cosmetic morbidity. As the pinna is a key component of facial cosmesis, pinna keloid scar formation can be aesthetically displeasing. Their stubbornness and high recurrence rate can be challenging to treat. This department,...

The impact of simulation on ENT training

3 July 2023 | Joshua Whittaker | ENTA-ENT

Surgical training is constantly developing to improve ENT surgeons’ technical and non-technical skills. In this article, Joshua Whittaker, an ENT Registrar and ENT Simulation Fellow at University Hospitals Birmingham, describes the rise of simulation training. Simulation is the recreation of...

Show me the video: modelling for behaviour change

3 March 2021 | Anna Volkmer | ENTA-Speech and Language Therapy

It is estimated that 2% of people in the United States have autism. The DSM 5th edition defines the autism spectrum diagnosis criteria as when an individual has social communication difficulties, as well as restrictive and repetitive behaviours. One intervention...

Teaching the art of cooking to a hearing impaired chef

1 July 2018 | Alan Coxon | ENTA-Audiology - Adult

Today catering is a hugely popular career choice for many people and there’s a new cookery competition or programme on our TV screens every week. But beyond the media glamour, the kitchen is a challenging and noisy working environment, in...

Global hearing rehabilitation – an SFORL/IFOS collaboration

1 September 2018 | Bernard Fraysse (Prof), Declan Costello | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric

International collaboration is more important than ever, and we hear from Prof Bernard Fraysse about a collaboration that grew out of the very successful IFOS meeting in Paris in 2017. The IFOS meeting in Paris in June 2017 was obviously...

Changing perceptions in head and neck cancer management caused by quality of life issues

1 September 2010 | Randall P Morton | ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice

Sir Felix Semon was an outstanding clinician and exceptional laryngologist. The money raised by donations from his colleagues on his retirement in 1909 was used to establish the London University’s Semon Lecture. Semon’s Obituary in the BMJ, reads: “In Semon's...

Genetics and the newborn hearing screen: the future is now

1 July 2021 | A Eliot Shearer | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic

Eliot Shearer shares the progress being made with newborn hearing screening 60 years on from where it started, and future directions for identifying hearing loss using physiologic, genetic and cCMV screening. Newborn screening had its birth in the early 1960s,...

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