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The role of significant others in hearing aid adoption

1 July 2015 | Janet Ho-yee Ng | Audiology - Adult

Presbycusis, or age-related hearing loss, is one of the most common conditions affecting older adults and its prevalence is found to increase with age. Over the years, amplification technology has advanced significantly from analogue to digital signal processing. Despite this,...

Dizziness: confusion, issues and considerations

1 November 2015 | Douglas L Beck | Otology, Vestibular Disorders

Douglas L Beck gives his unique take on the difficulties involved in diagnosing dizzy patients and the importance of well-founded research acting as the basis for any diagnosis and treatment decisions. Dizziness. Uh-oh. We really have a very limited understanding...

Screening for hearing loss with mHealth solutions

1 March 2017 | De Wet Swanepoel (Prof) | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric

With the number of people suffering from hearing loss growing all the time, the need for early detection and intervention is imperative. De Wet Swanepoel discusses two examples of mHealth possibilities for hearing screening which, as a low cost solution,...

A binaural detection task that reveals deficits in listeners having ‘slight’ or ‘hidden’ hearing loss

1 March 2018 | Leslie R Bernstein (Prof), Constantine Trahiotis (Prof) | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic

The association of degraded binaural processing in adults with clinically defined ‘slight’ or ‘hidden’ high frequency hearing loss is of great interest to clinicians if it can be measured. Leslie R Bernstein and Constantine Trahiotis share their findings in measurements...

Hearables: in-ear sensing devices for recording of physiological signals

5 January 2022 | Colver Ken Howe Ne, Jameel Muzaffar, Manohar Bance (Prof) | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic

Colver Ken Howe Ne, Jameel Muzaffar and Manohar Bance discuss the potential of hearable systems to monitor physiological signals (e.g. from brain or heart, blood pressure, body temperature) unobtrusively. Such adaptations require high-quality sensors and sophisticated de-noising signal processing on...

Management of benign oesophageal strictures

30 April 2020 | Mina Nader Hanna Barsoum, Yasmin Abbas, Taranjit Singh Tatla | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice

Benign strictures of the upper oesophagus and pharynx, while not very common, can be a challenging condition to successfully manage. The authors of this article provide us with a detailed description of their technique for using the CO2 laser, balloon...

Sialendoscopy

4 November 2021 | Magdalena Widmann, Florian Schrötzlmair | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice

Recent advances in endoscopic technology allow the ENT surgeon to access the salivary gland ductal system for both diagnostic and therapeutic reasons. In this article the authors share their experiences with using this technology, both as a standalone procedure and...

In conversation with Shusheng Gong and Shahed Quraishi on ENT Masterclass<sup>®</sup> China

1 March 2017 | Shusheng Gong (Prof), M Shahed Quraishi (Prof) OBE, Jiao Xia, Jing Xie | ENT, Head and Neck

ENT Masterclass® China was a landmark event that brought an international training resource to Beijing. Profs Shusheng Gong and Shahed Quraishi discuss the organisation of this event, the training pathway in China, and the setup of a typical ENT academic...

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