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Snap: do voice patients’ self-ratings match the professionals or the machines?

1 March 2017 | | instrumental voice analysis, perceptual voice assessment, school teacher, voice disorders
Self-rating by people with voice disorders and perceptual assessments by speech and language therapists are generally quicker and cheaper than acoustic voice analysis. Reports, with small sample sizes and mixed participant groups, on whether these measures are associated have demonstrated...

Persistent dysphonia due to cricothyroid muscle dystonia – should we be requesting laryngeal EMGs for non-resolving ‘functional’ dysphonia?

1 September 2016 | | Cricothyroid muscle, Laryngeal dystonia, Laryngeal electromyography, Spasmodic dysphonia
This article is an interesting report of a case of persistent voice problems affecting a 43-year-old physician that significantly compromised her ability to converse and communicate at work. Specifically, she had a fluctuating voice quality that would ‘choke off’, combined...

Salivary gland blues…

1 March 2016 |
Intravenous methylene blue is a well-described method to assist in intraoperative localisation of parathyroid glands. The technique does come with challenges as anybody will know who has had to run adjacent to a theatre-bound trolley to ensure that the infusion...

Mitomycin in adjuvant treatment of laryngotracheal stenosis

1 January 2016 |
Laryngotracheal stenosis (LTR) is a difficult condition to manage, and the effectiveness of surgical treatment is limited by the tendency of scar tissue to reform. Mitomycin has been used as a controversial adjuvant to surgical treatment for many years. Drawbacks...

Assessment of genetic disorders: congenital sensorineural hearing loss

1 November 2014 | | ENT, Genetics, Otology
Severe or profound sensorineural hearing impairment (SNHI) is a common birth defect, affecting approximately 1 in 1000 newborns [1]. SNHI may result from environmental causes or have a genetic basis. The genetic causes can be further subdivided into non-syndromic (isolated...

What do animal models tell us about tinnitus and hyperacusis?

23 May 2017 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, Tinnitus
Do animals have tinnitus? The obvious question to ask is: do animals have tinnitus? It is known that tinnitus is a conscious percept and as such affected by attention and not audible during sleep. For it to be demonstrated that...

Treating voice disorders in singers

3 September 2021 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
There are few ENT surgeons who have as much insight into singers’ problems as Nick Gibbins. A good knowledge of working patterns, repertoire and the physiology of ‘vocal athletes’ is essential. He shares a few thoughts with us. When deciding...

In conversation with Bill Gibson, Richard Ramsden and Shakeel Saeed

1 September 2017 | | Auditory Implants, Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Adult, ENT, Otology, Paediatric ENT
The surgical aspect of cochlear implantation is both a joy and a challenge – which is why we love it! In this article, Simon Freeman draws on the wisdom of his three previous mentors, sharing pearls from some of the...

Developing an Innovation for ENT – from Idea to Market: how ‘e-i’ did it

1 March 2014 | | ENT
Background endoscope-i (e-i) Ltd was incorporated into Companies House on December 3rd, 2012 following eight months of developing our first project, a simple iPhone adapter for endoscopes. Of the three founding shareholders, two are ENT surgeons and one a lecturer...

Selecting and optimising hearing aids for tinnitus benefit: a rough guide

24 May 2017 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, Tinnitus
Hearing aids have a relatively long history as tinnitus treatment tools. Saltzman and Ersner reported success in suppressing tinnitus with simple hearing aids in a number of cases as early as 1947 [1]. In an early comprehensive approach to tinnitus...

Mindfulness based approaches to tinnitus management: meditations on a new approach

24 May 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Tinnitus
Psychological approaches to tinnitus There is now widespread agreement that an individual’s interpretation of tinnitus can determine how distressing they find it. If tinnitus is regarded as non-threatening then habituation normally follows. If, however, tinnitus is interpreted as threatening, habituation...

#BecauseIhearIlive – an international message from Smiling Crocodile

26 June 2020 | | ENT, Otology, Audiology - Paediatric
There are 34 million children worldwide afflicted by disabling hearing loss, 60% of whom are suffering from hearing loss due to preventable causes [1]. This article is an account of the Smiling Crocodile Charity, founded in 2009 by Dagmar Herrmannová,...