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What’s the appetite for clinical risk?

1 September 2018 | | ENT
The first Professor and Chair of Medical Professionalism at RCSI and BSHS, Dubhfeasa Slattery provides an overview of how a desire for better healthcare at all levels can be harnessed and nourished, leading to a potential life-long interest in reducing...

When things go wrong

1 September 2018 | | ENT
The new-age, Paediatric Surgeon, Ray Clarke, (fear uasal, íseal), eloquently demands throwing off the shackles of the past and welcomes the dawning of an era of openness, transparency and candour, preferably suffused with compassion for both the patient and the...

The future of head and neck cancer surgery

1 March 2019 | | ENT, Head and Neck
Neil Sharma paints an exciting picture of the future of head and neck surgery with nanobots and robot augmented humans – science fiction or reality? Time will tell. ‘May you live in interesting times’ reads the old Chinese curse. The...

IFOS 2021: imagining inspirational continuing professional development

9 September 2020 | | ENT
If you expect a virtual presentation to be the same as an in-person presentation, just without the live person in front of you, then you have no imagination. Irrespective of the challenges facing us currently with meeting in person during...

Sniffing out the evidence – COVID-19 and loss of sense of smell and taste

1 July 2021 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus, COVID-19
Louis Pasteur once observed: “In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.” Professor Hopkins was certainly prepared when a few anecdotes of smell problems started to accumulate early in the pandemic’s course. Post-viral olfactory loss is nothing...

The outer ear in the visual arts

2 March 2022 | | ENT, Otology, Audiology - Adult
The ear is an exceptional organ, and quite rightly takes its place in the visual arts, as described by Albert Mudry, who takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the appearance of the ear and its depictions in art throughout...

Reducing hierarchy for individuals and teams across ENT

3 May 2022 | | ENT
Alexander Pope said that “to err is human”, but medical errors can have serious consequences. How can better communication minimise the risk of them occurring in the first place? Allowing all members of the surgical team to feel empowered to...

Focus on ENT trainees with additional qualifications

1 March 2016 | | ENT
In this Trainee Matters, we focus on ENT trainees with additional qualifications. Eight accomplished trainees tell Emma Stapleton how their achievements have benefitted them both professionally and personally. Their professional achievements have included a National Training Number in ENT, presentations,...

Mindfulness based approaches to tinnitus management: meditations on a new approach

24 May 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Tinnitus
Psychological approaches to tinnitus There is now widespread agreement that an individual’s interpretation of tinnitus can determine how distressing they find it. If tinnitus is regarded as non-threatening then habituation normally follows. If, however, tinnitus is interpreted as threatening, habituation...

Semi implantable bone conduction devices: challenges and developments

6 June 2017 | | Auditory Implants, Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Adult, ENT, Otology, Paediatric ENT
Bone conduction mechanisms and history of bone conduction aids Bone conduction hearing devices work by stimulating hair cells via the bone conduction hearing pathways. These pathways are less well understood than the air conduction pathways, but recent research has shown...

Adult hearing screening: consideration for a holistic model

14 June 2017 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, 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]....

Could social isolation be a factor in the link between hearing loss and dementia?

26 June 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Neurotology
In 1802, Beethoven wrote to his brothers Carl and Johann about his hearing loss: “You men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause...