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Introducing the AOT Pod
7 April 2025
| Haseem Raja
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ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Our Newsround editor Haseem Raja interviews Josh Michaels from the Association of Otolaryngologists in Training (AOT) to discuss the new podcast. Josh Michaels. Congratulations on creating The AOT Pod ! Tell us more about AOT and what inspired you to...
Endoscopic airway interventions in children
Open surgery for paediatric airway pathologies such as subglottic stenosis was hailed as revolutionary when many of today’s paediatric ORL specialists were in training. Equipment, facilities and training has moved on and the high-quality optics in modern endoscopes, coupled with...EVOTION: Big data supporting public health policies for hearing loss
1 March 2018
| Doris-Eva Bamiou, Giorgos Dritsakis, Louisa Murdin
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ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Otology
Big Data? Biosensors, smart hearing aids and smartphones? The EVOTION Project has it all and more! What will this project tell us about the future of hearing management? Doris-Eva Bamiou, Giorgos Dritsakis and Louisa Murdin, members of the EVOTION team,...
THRIVE: redefining airway management in endoscopic oesophageal surgery
3 May 2024
| Thomas William Binnersley
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ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Transnasal humidified rapid insufflation ventilatory exchange (THRIVE) is no longer just a tool to help anaesthetists secure a difficult airway. Thanks to the work of authors like Yang and colleagues, it is being revolutionised to provide apnoeic oxygenation during endoscopic...
Tinnitus? There’s an app for that
Chronic tinnitus. It is difficult to treat and can have a debilitating impact on those who suffer from it. To date, there is no treatment that is guaranteed to make tinnitus go away, though there are several existing treatments that...
Modern surgical treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea indicate suppression of inflammatory cytokines
1 March 2018
| Madhup K Chaurasia
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Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, Cytokines, Inflammation, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Operative, Surgical Procedures
This study comprises 57 patients, 29 of which were treated by anterior palatoplasty procedure, expansion sphincter pharyngoplasty and submucosal minimal invasive lingual excision techniques and 27 by CPAP therapy. Parameters to determine success were AHI, VAS score, ESS score, mean...
Balloon dilatation of the eustachian tube - largely very safe but not entirely without risk
4 March 2024
| Joanna Stephens
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Maxillofacial Surgery, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
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MAUDE database, adverse event, balloon dilation, Eustachian Tube Dysfunction, risk profile
Consent is a fundamental part of our daily working lives. This is something as simple as consent to examine a patient, consent to undertake a procedure as minor as taking blood, through to consent for a major operation. Whatever the...
Expanding horizons: from speech therapy to communication therapy for people with Parkinson’s disease
1 November 2017
| Anna Volkmer
This article explores the perspective of people living with Parkinson’s disease before and after participating in speech treatment delivered by a speech and language therapist (SLT). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 participants. These interviews were held face to face...
Young ESPO - calling all young paediatric otolaryngologists
5 October 2020
Young ESPO welcomes all junior otolaryngologists with a special interest in paediatrics to become part of a community of training doctors, and share clinical and research knowledge on paediatric ENT!
Implications of tonsillectomy in very young children
2 March 2022
| Madhup K Chaurasia
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Paediatric ENT
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Children, Epidemiology, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Tonsillectomy, Tonsillitis
This is a comprehensive study comprising 157 children who underwent tonsillectomy below the age of two years, mainly for sleep-disordered breathing (86.6%) and recurrent tonsillitis (7%). With relatively recent understanding of OSAS, the indications for tonsillectomy in children under two...
Helmets make a difference in bicycle injuries
4 March 2024
| Stuart Clark
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ENTA - Head & Neck
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Bicycling, Head protective devices, Helmets, Maxillofacial injuries, Traffic accidents
This is a meta-analysis of maxillofacial injuries arising from riding a bicycle. The incidence of maxillofacial fractures in cycling accidents varies from 3-20% and, whilst the effectiveness of helmets in preventing traumatic brain injuries is well known, their protective effect...
