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10 steps to improving transition to adult services
1 January 2017
| Jacqui Rogers, Lynda Brook
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ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Paediatrics
Children and parents like the reassurance that staying under the care of the team who looked after them from birth gives, but as the child approaches adulthood he / she must come under the care of a new team. This...
Is there an association with cognitive impairment and hearing loss in a developing country?
Hearing loss (HL) is the third leading chronic health condition among older adults. Most studies investigating HL and cognition have been performed in high-income countries. Risk factors for dementia (eg. hypertension, midlife hearing loss, obesity and physical inactivity) are more...
Cognition outcomes after cochlear implantation – is there an improvement?
1 January 2019
| Kerri Millward
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Cochlear implant, Cochlear implantation, Cognition, Cognitive outcome, Older adults, Profound hearing loss, Systematic review
Older adults with a severe to profound hearing loss are more at risk of cognitive decline than adults of a similar age with milder losses or normal hearing. This poses challenges, not only in the assessment process, but also for...
Attitudes towards leisure noise
1 September 2018
| Joanna Lemanska
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Noise-induced hearing problems, attitudes, earplugs, leisure noise, tinnitus
Noise is a very common reason for hearing loss. The question is whether young adults realise the danger of developing a noise related hearing loss. The aim of this study was to evaluate the attitude towards leisure noise and noise...
Maturation of BC attenuation
1 July 2018
| Joanna Lemanska
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Bone conduction, bone-anchored hearing systems, forehead attenuation, infant bone-conduction hearing, interaural attenuation, transcranial attenuation
The aim of this study was to clarify the reason for differences between bone-conduction hearing in adults and infants. The authors investigated how the sound pressure level in the ear canal changes depending on the bone-conduction transducer placement. By using...
Laryngeal cleft in a 66-year-old man!
1 January 2019
| Ravi Thevasagayam
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Congenital malformation, Laryngo-trahcheo-esophageal cleft, Larynx
This is a fascinating case report of a 66-year-old man who presented with a carcinoma of the piriform sinus. During chemoradiotherapy, he developed dyspnoea, dysphagia and aspiration pneumonia. His chemoradiotherapy was stopped and he underwent a pharygnolaryngectomy. When the surgical...
Planning for end of life care: is there a role for the speech and language therapist?
1 July 2017
| Anna Volkmer
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clinical guidelines, clinical practice, palliative care, speech-language pathology
This article presents a scoping review of the research literature on the role of speech and language therapists in palliative care settings. The researchers conducted a search using several electronic databases focusing on palliative, terminal and end of life (EOL)...
Are individuals with vestibular vertigo accessing healthcare more frequently?
3 September 2024
| Clair Saxby
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ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Vestibular vertigo is estimated to have an adult lifetime prevalence of 7.4%. Vestibular dysfunction has been linked to physical, cognitive, and psychiatric impairments. There is, therefore, a large economic burden and healthcare usage. Patients with vestibular vertigo are more likely...
Access to and uptake of cochlear implants in the UK
1 June 2017
| Chris H Raine (Prof)
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ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
Assessing demands on cochlear implant (CI) services is very important for both commissioners and clinicians in anticipating clinical need and funding requirements. Commercial CI’s were introduced in the late 1980s. Initial funding was from charitable sources. The first major advance...
Adult hearing screening: consideration for a holistic model
14 June 2017
| Catherine McMahon, Julie Schneider, Bamini Gopinath
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ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Background Adult-onset hearing impairment is a highly prevalent and undertreated chronic problem that poses a significant burden of disease worldwide [1]. It is usually gradual and diagnosed and managed approximately 10 years after adults have first experienced hearing difficulties [2]....
Inequitable access to cochlear implantation across the UK
Referral rates and uptake of cochlear implantation in the global adult population are low. Five audiology centres across England and Wales retrospectively explored data over a six-month period in late 2019, post implementation of new National Institute for Health and...
Cochlear implantation in SSD
1 July 2016
| Anand Kasbekar
There are currently several trials for cochlear implantation (CI) in single-sided deafness (SSD) being undertaken to answer some of the questions this paper from New York raises. Who is best suited to receive one? What are their outcomes and how...
