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Use of automated audiometry for faster patient access to audiology services?

30 April 2021 | Nina Sivan, Roulla Katiri, Bronagh O’Donnell, Teresa O’Rourke, Stephen Kieran | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic

Manual audiometry has long been the gold standard for establishing hearing thresholds. In recent years, a number of automated audiometry applications have reached the market. In this article, a team from Ireland have put a version of automated audiometry to...

The birth of the TWJ Foundation

14 October 2022

For nearly 50 years, the TWJ Foundation has been promoting the advancement of otology and audiology through education and research. David Wright looks back at its first half century.

Who finds it hard to swallow?

1 October 2018 | Roganie Govender | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | Accuracy, Deglutition, Deglutition disorders, Dysphagia, Screening, Sensitivity, Stroke, Swallowing

Early identification of dysphagia in inpatients on acute stroke wards has been recommended as best practice guidelines in many countries. However, several institutions fail to use formal dysphagia screening protocols and rely on informal detection by nurses and doctors. This...

How well do different assessments of swallowing correlate with one another?

3 November 2023 | Roganie Govender | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice

Swallowing (dys)function may be assessed by three key measures: 1. instrumental swallowing techniques such as the modified barium swallow (MBS) or videofluoroscopy; 2. functional measures of diet texture that patients can eat comfortably (usually rated by the clinician); and 3....

Remembering James F Jerger

5 August 2024

Dr Jerger contributed remarkably to both the scientific basis and clinical practice of our profession. He passed away on July 24 at the age of 96 years. James F Jerger, PhD, was the Founder of the American Academy of Audiology and served as its first president. He was a gifted and prolific writer, a renowned scientist, and a beloved teacher and colleague.

Specialist Otolaryngologist (sub-specialty Head & Neck) – relocate to New Zealand

24 January 2024 | Recruitment & Personnel

Applications are invited for the position of Specialist ENT Surgeon within the ENT department at Waikato Hospital.

SEQaBOO: SEQuencing a Baby for an Optimal Outcome

1 July 2021 | Andrea Dawn Short, Cynthia Casson Morton | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic

There are at least 15 countries now running genome sequencing projects. The team in Manchester, UK, and Boston, USA, share their SEQaBOO project. Abstract SEQaBOO (SEQuencing a Baby for an Optimal Outcome) will transform newborn hearing screening (NBHS) by bringing...

Superior semicircular canal dehiscence: transmastoid obliteration

1 September 2017 | Thomas D Milner, Georgios Kontorinis, Kim Ah-See (Prof) | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders, ENTA - Otology

Sometimes patients with dizziness turn out to have slightly more unusual causes of their problem. Thomas Milner and Georgios Kontorinis describe their technique for managing patients who have a diagnosis of superior canal dehiscence as an identified cause of their...

Did you ever meet Draffin on your travels?

2 September 2022 | John Riddington Young | ENTA - ENT

Draffin’s rods or bipods are a well-known ENT instrument. Before their invention in 1951, the attendant anaesthetist or nurse was obliged to support the mouthgag during tonsillectomy. Their originator, David Alexander Draffin (born in 1917 in Ballybey, Co Monaghan), was...

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