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Treatment options for vestibular neuritis: systematic review and meta-analysis

2 March 2022 | | Neurotology, Otology | caloric tests, meta-analysis, recovery of function, steroids, vestibular neuritis
Vestibular neuritis (VN) is the third most common cause of peripheral vertigo. VN has been postulated to have viral aetiology and historically it was treated with steroids, until 2011 when a Cochrane review demonstrated lack of robust evidence behind this...

How can we actually be culturally responsive?

6 September 2021 | | Speech and Language Therapy
Now, more than ever, we need to take action to meet the needs of the students and patients we work with. Black Lives Matter only emphasised how little progress has been made in this area to date. The authors of...

The future: brain imaging for aphasia rehabilitation

1 July 2018 |
Technology offers our patients vast potential, yet the research literature in this area is often technical and difficult to translate to the day-to-day clinical setting. This article aims to review structural and functional imaging methods and discuss how they are...

Audiologists’ perspectives on their ability to address hearing, social and emotional adult patient needs

4 March 2024 | | Audiology - Adult | Counselling, adjustment, confidence, patient-centred care, rehabilitation
Authors suggest there is little evidence that hearing technology addresses patients’ emotional concerns related to their lived experience of hearing and communication difficulty. The study explores the notion of audiologic counselling and discusses the role of audiologists in supporting the...

Otolith dysfunction in congenitally deaf adults

1 March 2016 | | Cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (cVEMP), Hearing loss, Ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (oVEMP), Saccule, Utricle, Vestibular function
This paper helps to further define the profile of ocular and cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (o and c VEMPs) in patients with congenital profound sensorineural hearing loss (PSHL). It highlights the prevalence of otolith (saccular and utricular) dysfunction that exists...

Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS) - Part 2

1 November 2016 | | Rhinology / Sinus
In the first of this two-part series, Martyn Barnes and colleagues discussed indications for functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS), the surgical objectives and techniques, patient expectations and the risks of surgery [1]. In this second and final part, the authors...

BACO International 2018: Key Speakers

1 January 2018 | | ENT, Otology, Neurotology, Head and Neck, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Skull Base Surgery
Prof Aldo C Stamm, MD, MSc, PhD Anatomy of the paranasal sinuses and skull base, and breaking the paradigms in severe spontaneous epistaxis It is a true honour to participate as an invited faculty member at the upcoming BACO International...

What’s new in auditory processing?

1 May 2016 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric, Neurotology
Auditory processing disorder (APD) has had a controversial history, stemming mainly from lack of scientific rigor and accepted clinical definition. That situation is now changing. Driven by the huge number of people with unaddressed listening difficulties, basic discoveries in neuroscience,...

Central auditory changes in SNHL

1 May 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Otology
Robert Harrison discusses some of the most obvious ways in which cochlear hearing loss has central consequences. It is convenient to classify hearing loss according to the most obvious site of lesion, for example, conductive, cochlear, retro-cochlear, or central hearing...

Leadership: in conversation with Dr Joyce Aswani

1 September 2019 | | ENT
In certain cultures, it is even more difficult for women to establish roles in leadership due to the pressures put upon them by society to take care of the home and family, often in lieu of furthering their education and...

Leadership: In conversation with Dr Joyce Aswani

1 September 2019 | | ENT
In certain cultures, it is even more difficult for women to establish roles in leadership due to the pressures put upon them by society to take care of the home and family, often in lieu of furthering their education and...

Allergy – what’s in a name?

5 October 2020 |
Allergy is defined as an “abnormal immune reaction to an ordinarily harmless substance” [1], however the meaning of the word has taken many forms since its introduction in 1906 by Austrian Paediatrician and Immunologist, Clemens von Pirquet [2]. Combining his...