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TORS for patients with sleep-disordered breathing

1 May 2015 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Rhinology / Sinus
Transoral robotic surgery is now a well-accepted technique in malignant tumours of the tongue base. Here the team from St Mary’s and the Royal National Throat Nose & Ear Hospital in London describe its use in carefully selected patients with...

ENT Training: a Singapore perspective

1 January 2014 | | ENT
I recently had the opportunity to participate in a week’s observation with Associate Prof Thomas Loh, a head and neck surgeon with a special interest in nasopharyngeal carcinoma at the National University Hospital of Singapore (NUHS). What was striking from...

Educational audiologists: adding value, bridging gaps

1 September 2017 | | Audiology - Diagnostic
Educational audiology provides a vital link between health and education by supporting children with hearing loss in educational settings. Joy Rosenberg presents an overview of the training route available in the United Kingdom. Students in lecture. Educational audiologists greatly enhance...

Why and how I enjoy the history of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS)

1 September 2015 | | ENT
In the first article of this History of ENT edition, Albert Mudry explains why history is so intrinsically relevant to the practice of medicine and tells us how to use history as a foundation for the discovery of new ideas,...

Innovation in medical product technologies

2 November 2020 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Rhinology / Sinus
There is a point in all innovation projects where the clinician has exhausted their knowledge and needs expert help to create a prototype. Mark Prince, Design Engineer, discusses this phase of the project and how engineers’ analytical thinking brings a...

Universal newborn hearing screening: a global health perspective

1 May 2017 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Diagnostic
Intuitively, as health professionals, we know that universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) makes sense. Bolajoko Olusanya outlines how UNHS fits in with global health priorities, as well as illustrating how such programmes can help to deliver additional benefits to communities....

Celebrating deaf identity through art: the ‘Hearing Care for ALL’ Virtual Gallery Project

4 September 2023 | | Audiology - Adult
Dr Dalia Tsimpida tells us about the art initiative she created in the midst of the pandemic to promote ear and hearing care, and celebrate the vibrant and diverse world of deaf identity. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

The challenge of disrupting the hearing care market in the USA

1 March 2016 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric
Barry Freeman, an Audiology Consultant of extensive global experience, examines the business model of hearing care service delivery in America. He discusses the challenges the profession has faced, and proposes some food for thought on learning from other health care...

Hearing aid microphone considerations for binaural hearing: When to select natural or aggressive directional microphone technology?

1 July 2019 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric
Should I use omni-directional or fixed directionality? Does it make a difference if I’m fitting a unilateral hearing loss? Mark Laureyns discusses the current evidence on directional microphones and provides practical advice on the systems and when to employ them....

Recurrent respiratory papilloma treatment in the office

1 September 2018 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
In this interesting new article, Markus Hess and Susanne Fleischer describe their technique for managing recurrent laryngeal papillomatosis in an outpatient setting using channelled endoscopes. The recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) of the larynx is a chronic HPV-associated viral disease. Clinical...

Wound moisture sensing in traumatic wounds

1 July 2014 | | ENT
Wounds can be small and unpleasant, or may be large and life-threatening. The skin is a physical and an immunological barrier to infection, and any defect in the integrity of the skin may enable bacterial or fungal invasion. The successful...

Is one glass of wine on call safe?

1 January 2014 | | ENT
It’s a standard question for those about to sit a Specialist Training (ST) interview; you are on call and you call a senior colleague in to perform an operation. You smell alcohol on the breath of the surgeon, so what...