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Should we be doing earlier MRIs in sudden sensorineural hearing loss?

7 January 2020 | | Head and Neck, Rhinology / Sinus
There is recognised variation between ENT departments in exact imaging protocols for the workup of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL) but a routine MRI to exclude retrocochlear pathology is standard, usually following immediate treatment with oral +/- intratympanic steroids....
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Effects of coronavirus pandemic on presentation of head and neck cancer patients

10 March 2023 | | Head and Neck, COVID-19 | COVID-19, Head And Neck Neoplasms, otolaryngology
The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented disruption of NHS services. This was compounded by patients’ reluctance to attend hospitals at that time. How this affected the presentation of patients with head and neck cancer is the subject of this study. Head...

Choose Experience. Choose Expertise. Choose BenCorpp®

29 March 2023 | Company Profiles
BenCorpp® is more than just a company - it is a family-owned business located in Mirandola, a small town in northern Italy, known worldwide as “the Biomedical Valley of Europe”.

Food impaction in children is associated with eosinophilic oesophagitis

1 January 2019 | | Neurotology | dysphagia, eosinophilic esophagitis, esophageal food impaction, esophageal foreign bodies
There is an increasing amount of evidence to suggest that chronic oesophageal inflammation and motility disorders play a more significant role in oesophageal food impaction (EFI) in children compared to structural defects. The authors conducted a retrospective study of children...

British English speech test for occupational hearing assessment

1 January 2018 | | auditory fitness for duty, Speech perception, behavioural measures, noise, psychoacoustics/hearing science
It is very important to properly assess occupational fitness for several occupations such as police officer, military personnel or fire fighter. The aim of this study was to develop a British English speech in noise (SiN) test as a tool...

Reasons for readmission up to 30 days after nasal day surgery

1 November 2017 |
This paper aims to review the reasons behind readmission to hospital after day case elective sinonasal surgery up to a month postoperatively. This French tertiary institution study retrospectively reviewed the charts of 924 patients undergoing nasal day case surgery over...

Anticoagulated patients and epistaxis

1 May 2017 |
This systematic review looks at the increasing complexity in this space as anti-thrombotics become more sophisticated and move away from the more well understood management of warfarinised patients. After a thorough search, 29 papers were found to be relevant and...

Outpatient closure of CSF leaks: a good idea or a step too far?

1 January 2017 | | ambulatory surgery, anterior skull base, cerebrospinal fluid leak, cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea, endoscopic, outpatient, skull-base defect, spontaneous CSF leak
After day-case septoplasty, day case thyroidectomy, now day case CSF leak repair – has the pendulum moved too far? The authors put forward a convincing case for what, only 10 years ago, would have sounded like a provocation. They quote...

Supporting patients with chronic dizziness and investing in vestibular research

13 September 2021 | Research & Development
The Ménière’s Society is the UK’s leading vestibular charity. Their team is available to help patients access reliable information, source a vestibular specialist or talk to someone who understands what they’re going through.

Hyperbaric oxygen for sudden onset sensorineural hearing loss

1 September 2015 |
Idiopathic sudden onset sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is a relatively common presentation to the ENT emergency department, and can have profound effects on patients’ lives. This retrospective study looked at 15 patients who were treated with hyperbaric oxygen after failure...

What is Transnasal Humidified Rapid-Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange (THRIVE)?

1 May 2018 | | ENT, Head and Neck, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
THRIVE is a physiological mechanism for oxygenating and ventilating patients who are under general anaesthesia and who have diminished or absent respiratory effort [1]. Classical ventilation requires bulk flow of gases into and out of the lungs driven by chest...

A soprano’s demise: a cautionary tale for the thyroid surgeon

4 March 2024 | | ENT
Prior to the mid-19th century, thyroid surgery was considered excessively dangerous. The emergence of anaesthetic, antisepsis and improved instrumentation, however, increased its feasibility and frequency in Europe. The unhurried, judiciously antiseptic and haemostatic approach, advocated by Kocher, was popularised and...