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From the editor SeptemberOctober 2022

2 September 2022 |
Declan Costello, MA, MBBS, FRCS(ORL-HNS), Editor, ENT & Audiology News; Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK. E: d.costello@nhs.net A few weeks ago, the ENT & Audiology News editorial team had a very productive meeting...

The use of THRIVE in laryngology and phonosurgery

1 May 2018 | | ENT, Head and Neck, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
The team in Lewisham has been using THRIVE for our phonosurgical cases for about a year. Here, we discuss the pros, cons and potential pitfalls of setting up and using THRIVE as ventilation during anaesthesia rather than using an ML...

Continuous Ambulatory Vestibular Assessment (CAVA)

2 March 2022 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, Neurotology, Otology | Ménière’s disease, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, dizziness, migraine, nystagmus, vestibular diseases
This article presents initial test findings using a novel system called CAVA - Continuous Ambulatory Vestibular Assessment. Akin to the 24-hour ECG tape to identify cardiac arrhythmias, this system aims to continuously monitor the presence of a nystagmus pattern in...

A new approach to workplace hearing conservation

5 July 2022 | | Audiology - Adult
The traditional approach to managing workplace noise has failed - how can we better protect our nation’s hearing using smart hearing protection? Occupational noise-induced hearing loss (ONIHL) is the most common occupational health condition in the world and the most...

A comparison of two different audiology roles in Denmark and the United Kingdom

1 July 2015 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that there are over 360 million people with a disabling hearing loss in the world. Disabling hearing loss is considered to be a loss of greater than 40 decibels (dB) in the better hearing...

The Chronic Ear

1 May 2018 | | Otology
For me, the title of this book conjures up an historical image. I imagine an early 20th century consulting room, an otologist with a head mirror and bull’s eye lamp. A pre-antibiotic era in which a patient’s otorrhoea is meticulously...

Decreased sound tolerance in autism: understanding and distinguishing between hyperacusis, misophonia, and phonophobia

3 May 2022 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
Decreased sound tolerance (DST) affects a significant proportion of autistic people throughout their lifetime and, as Zachary J Williams explains, it is important that clinicians are aware of the three distinct subtypes of DST when making a diagnosis. Autism spectrum...

Cambodian Children Surgical Centre: a junior’s perspective

7 January 2020 | | ENT, Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Otology
The Children’s Surgical Centre (CSC) is a Non-Governmental-Organisation (NGO) hospital situated in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. CSC was developed for landmine victims over 20 years ago by Dr Jim Gollogly after the dark period under the Pol Pot...

Multifrequency tympanometry

1 March 2019 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Diagnostic
There are many good reasons to start using multifrequency tympanometry as opposed to a traditional, single 226Hz probe tone. Here, Leigh Martin of Interacoustics discusses the uses and benefits. Tympanometry is a core test in the audiologist’s test battery. In...

Tinnitus treatment device from concept to commercialisation

8 January 2024 | | Audiology - Adult, Tinnitus
Innovation in the field of healthcare is fraught with nearly insurmountable challenges. Bringing a novel product to the market requires a new (patentable) idea that can be reduced to practice, manufactured at scale, and can pass all regulatory barriers. In...

From the editor May/Jun 2024

3 May 2024 |
Declan Costello, MA, MBBS, FRCS(ORL-HNS),Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK. E: d.costello@nhs.netTW / X: @Voicedoctor_uk One of the privileges of editing this magazine is interviewing senior figures within our specialty; so, it was wonderful...

What’s new about the 5th Congress of the CEORL-HNS?

1 January 2019 | | ENT
The CEORL-HNS congress will feature novel ideas for sessions, including debates, ‘basic ENT’ and ‘nightmare’ sessions! The two leading figures of the meeting tell us about the evolution of the congress and future directions. There is something new about the...