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COVID-19 and medical practice

7 July 2020 | | ENTA - Head & Neck | COVID-19, COVID, SARS-Cov-2, Head and Neck Cancer, ENT
The pandemic has deeply affected all types of medical and surgical practice and even publications. In this issue, the lead article was on the French consensus on ENT practice during the pandemic. In ENT practice, both patients and health workers...

OSA – do the parents know best?

9 September 2020 | | ENTA - Paediatrics
The difficulty in using the history and examination to determine the severity of sleep disordered breathing in children is well established. The relative prevalence of sleep disordered breathing symptoms in children, and the relative paucity of capacity and restrictive cost...

Is a hemithyroidectomy as effective as a total thyroidectomy for compressive symptoms?

10 March 2023 | ENTA - Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery | Dysphagia, Dyspnea, Goiter, Hemithyroidectomy, Thyroidectomy
The claim made in the title of this paper, that hemithyroidectomy is equally as successful as total thyroidectomy in alleviating compressive symptoms from goitres, is certainly intriguing. And with the inclusion of 45,539 subjects, it would at first glance seem...
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Is it beneficial for children to undergo bilateral cochlear implantation before 12 months old?

4 May 2023 | | ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Universal newborn hearing screening has allowed early diagnosis and, subsequently, early intervention in hearing loss. In 2020 the Food and Drug Administration candidacy criteria for cochlear implants (CI) expanded to include profound sensorineural hearing loss (HL) in children as young...

How rare is vocal fold paralysis after spinal and epidural anaesthesia – should we be more concerned?

6 November 2024 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
The authors present an unusual case of right vocal fold paralysis. Their patient was a 38-year-old woman who experienced new onset dysphonia following neuraxial anaesthesia (NA) for a caesarean section. Flexible nasendoscopy showed a right VFP with fixation in the...

Random-pattern skin flaps: part 4 - transposition flaps

2 September 2022 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
In the final part of our series on local skin flaps (see Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) in ENT, the authors describe the usefulness of the transposition-type flap and highlight some examples. Rotational advancement flap Useful for defects...

Protheses for patients with severe bilateral vestibular loss

4 March 2025 | | ENTA - Vestibular Disorders, ENTA - Neurotology
In February 2003, I met a patient with severe bilateral vestibular loss due to gentamicin toxicity, and I felt disheartened. Despite the fantastic diagnostic vestibular lab we had at Maastricht University Hospital, what could I truly offer her? She had...

A multidisciplinary approach to the management of the adult balance - dizzy patient

30 April 2020 | | ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Richard Gans and Kimberly Rutherford, renowned experts from The American Institute of Balance, give their team’s overview of the stages involved in reaching ‘diagnosis based strategies’. For the dizzy patient, this focuses on patient-centred clinical pathways for individualised therapy with...

Finding the right balance: remote dizzy patient consultation during a pandemic

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
During the COVID pandemic, all our working patterns have changed. One significant impact had been on the management of outpatient consultations and the increase in telephone consultations and enhanced vetting. In this article the authors share their experience of managing...

From aaargh to zzzzz: the ABC of paediatric anaesthesia

1 November 2019 | | ENTA - Paediatrics
Andrew McTavish is one of those special breeds who not only relishes complex anaesthesia, but also does so in paediatric patients. Dealing with this group of patients requires careful planning according to accepted practice, and here he discusses some recent...

The tip in rhinoplasty

1 July 2019 | | ENTA - Maxillofacial Surgery, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Rhinoplasty
Getting the tip right (both its position and its shape) is vital in rhinoplasty. George Marcells eloquently gives us his perspective on how to get it right. “Many surgeons overly concentrate on the profile at the expense of the frontal...

Current Trends in Implantation Otology

7 September 2023 -8 September 2023
Priya Achar, Consultant Neurotologist, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK. Stalwarts in the field of implantation otology, including surgeons and audiovestibular scientists from the UK, Europe and the USA, attended this academic feast. Organised by Professor Laura Viani (below...