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The effect of sleep deprivation on auditory processing

1 March 2015 | Emma Stapleton | Sleep Deprivation, Pitch Discrimination, Aptitude, Frontal Lobe, Arousal, Short-Term Memory, Hearing, Sleep, Psychology

This article caught my eye for personal and professional reasons. As a full time ENT trainee working 24-hour on-calls, I also have young children who have never slept through the night and don’t respect weekends or days off. My FRCS...

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Is it necessary to put ventilation tubes at the time of surgery in children with cleft palate?

3 November 2023 | Madhup K Chaurasia | Otology | Paediatric, Cleft palate

It is commonly understood that existence of a palatal cleft is associated with abnormal action of tensor veli palatini muscle. Frequent middle ear effusions therefore occur because this muscle obstructs rather than opens the Eustachian tube on yawning and swallowing,...

The search for pharmacological treatments for hearing loss and tinnitus

1 November 2016 | Nicola Robas | Audiology - Adult

Where are we in our search for a hearing restoration grail? Nicola Robas leads us through the map pieces discovered in creating a pharmaceutical answer to hearing loss and tinnitus. Together, hearing loss and tinnitus affect over one in six...

Absorbing the hurt

1 January 2016 | John McGarva | ENT

In this article, taken from his blog, ENT surgeon John McGarva reminds us that while we can’t fix everything, we may still be able to help. It was a long time ago. I was a scarily young Houseman, barely 22,...

Auditory brainstem implant results in adults and children

5 June 2017 | Martin O’Driscoll, Deborah Mawman, Lise Henderson | Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Adult, Auditory Implants, ENT, Paediatric ENT, Otology

Background The auditory brainstem implant (ABI) has been developed from cochlear implant (CI) technology and is indicated for people who have anatomical abnormalities of the cochlea or dysfunction of the auditory nerve. The majority of people who have received an...

The role of significant others in hearing aid adoption

1 July 2015 | Janet Ho-yee Ng | Audiology - Adult

Presbycusis, or age-related hearing loss, is one of the most common conditions affecting older adults and its prevalence is found to increase with age. Over the years, amplification technology has advanced significantly from analogue to digital signal processing. Despite this,...

Non-absorbable synthetic material for middle fossa repair using a combined transmastoid/middle fossa approach

4 May 2023 | Daragh Chakravarty, Ethan Gilmour, Georgios Kontorinis

Repair of CSF leaks can be a challenging technical undertaking. In this article, the authors describe their use of a synthetic material to help with the successful repair of these leaks from the middle cranial fossa. Erosion of the middle...

The art and science of acoustic ecology

7 January 2020 | Aki Pasoulas | Audiology - Adult

Aki Pasoulas summarises the diverse forms and approaches of the relatively new and expanding area of acoustic ecology, a discipline that studies the relationship between living beings and their sonic environment. Sound Ecology emerged in the late 1960s through the...

The power of the multidisciplinary team in paediatric cochlear implant assessment

30 April 2020 | Marette Ambler, Kate Hanvey, Justine Maggs | Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants, Otology

Marette, Kate and Justine from the Birmingham Paediatric Centre give a detailed insight into how their team works together to assess children and young people for potential cochlear implantation. Cochlear implants and the specialist MDT The multidisciplinary team in cochlear...

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