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The future of treatments for hearing and balance: a 15 and 50-year perspective

1 March 2019 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Jameel Muzaffar and Manohar Bance paint a picture of what otology will look like 15 and 50 years’ time. Will we still need doctors? Will there still be an ENT news journal? The last 50 years have seen advances including...

Andrew Foster and deaf education

3 March 2021 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
This article examines the career of deaf African American, Andrew Foster, and his contribution to deaf education in Sub-Saharan Africa. The history of medicine has often been guilty of attributing great revolutions to a single person (usually a white man)...

Promoting human rights of deaf communities in low-resource settings

4 May 2021 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Stigma and misconceptions about deafness are serious impediments for many deaf people to realise rights and potential in some of the most challenging situations globally. Around 430 million people are estimated to live with moderate or higher levels of hearing...

Reducing hierarchy for individuals and teams across ENT

3 May 2022 | | ENTA-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...

The European School of Interdisciplinary Tinnitus

1 May 2018 | | ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Scientific careers in tinnitus are expanding beyond any single discipline to embrace interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge exchange. Natalia Trpchevska and Christopher R Cederroth present an overview of an innovative EU-funded training programme called the ‘European School of Interdisciplinary Tinnitus’, and...

The costs of applying to ENT specialty training

22 February 2021 | | ENTA-ENT
Training doctors is costly. In the UK, medical school costs an estimated £230,000 made up of £163,000 in government grants and £65,000 in student loans [1]. Repayment of the student loan begins once the graduate earns above a certain threshold,...

Measuring the pitch and loudness of tinnitus

24 May 2017 | | ENTA-Tinnitus, ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Matching the characteristics of tinnitus Many researchers and clinicians have explored the subjective nature of tinnitus by asking people with tinnitus to adjust a sound so that it matches their tinnitus in some way. This can be useful both for...

Why screen for hearing loss in adults?

14 June 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
Introduction Hearing loss affects over 10 million people in the UK – one in six of the population. Of over 50-year-olds 41.7% are estimated to have some form of hearing loss. This rises to 71.1% of over 70-year-olds, over half...

Utilisation of cortical auditory evoked potentials in the paediatric population

1 January 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Introduction Early identification of hearing loss in infants followed by prompt intervention is well established as the key to maximising the development of speech, language and psychosocial skills. Many countries have already adopted early hearing detection and intervention (EDHI) programs,...

Combined use of a hearing aid and a cochlear implant: a case study

1 July 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Auditory Implants
When multi-channel cochlear implants (CIs) were first introduced in the 1980s, their use was restricted to people who derived no benefit from conventional amplification. Over the past three decades, however, the criteria for CIs has been relaxed considerably, and it...

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and the vestibular system: a case study

1 November 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
This team of audiologists from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre discuss an eight year old with congenital CMV, a neonatal infection which is usually asymptomatic, and provide guidance on how to recognise the signs in the paediatric population, and screen...

The mounting burden of hearing loss worldwide: gearing up global collaboration

1 November 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
As audiology and ENT professionals we all have an inkling about the prevalence and impact of hearing loss, but the true gravity of the situation is even greater than previously thought… It may seem hard to believe, but in the...