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EVOTION: Big data supporting public health policies for hearing loss

1 March 2018 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Otology
Big Data? Biosensors, smart hearing aids and smartphones? The EVOTION Project has it all and more! What will this project tell us about the future of hearing management? Doris-Eva Bamiou, Giorgos Dritsakis and Louisa Murdin, members of the EVOTION team,...

Health related quality of life measures as outcome parameters in middle ear diseases

1 January 2018 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Otology
Surely the only outcome needed for post-surgical ears is a better PTA? Marcus Neudert argues there should be more to it than that. To draw a comprehensive picture of the disease-associated restrictions in patients with chronic otitis media, audiometric outcome...

Auditory brainstem implant results in adults and children

5 June 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Paediatrics
Background The auditory brainstem implant (ABI) has been developed from cochlear implant (CI) technology and is indicated for people who have anatomical abnormalities of the cochlea or dysfunction of the auditory nerve. The majority of people who have received an...

Hearing about genes

1 May 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Speech and Language Therapy
I have been fortunate in my career to travel as an invited lecturer at many hospitals, universities and professional societies around the world. I have spoken to audiology societies, otolaryngology societies, and university communication disorders programmes in Europe, Asia, Africa,...

Dizziness: confusion, issues and considerations

1 November 2015 | | ENTA-Otology, ENTA-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...

In conversation with Lawrence Cleary

1 May 2019 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-Otology
Lawrence Cleary is an art dealer and an ENT patient. He is also a recipient of an MBE for his contribution towards establishing the first multichannel cochlear implant programme in the UK. In this article he discusses with Katherine Conroy...

From India to Bonnie Scotland

1 March 2018 | | ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Paediatrics
Not many people know that one of the UK’s first cochlear implant surgeons was Raj Singh, OBE, an Indian immigrant whose passions for otology and technology led him to found the Scottish Cochlear Implant Programme, and the Help to Hear...

Robotics in rhinology – fantasy or the future?

3 September 2024 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
Robotic surgery is advancing, but its use in rhinology lags due to spatial constraints and high costs. Innovations in flexible robots may bridge this gap in the future. We are in a new era, one of artificial intelligence and robotics....

Chronic rhinosinusitis management: back to the future?

1 July 2016 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
Immunology is a dim and distant medical school memory to many ENT surgeons, but the increasingly complex immunology of chronic rhinosinusitis is fascinating (honestly!). Medical management options in CRS no longer just involves saline and steroids, and we need to...

OBITUARY: Dr David Pothier

1 September 2018
David Pothier passed away on July 27, 2018 in the early hours of the morning following a struggle with recurrent brain cancer. His passing extinguished a brilliant light, the likes of which few of us will witness in our lifetime....

Across the pond: a tale of two fellowships

1 September 2016 | | ENTA-ENT
Where in the world is Halifax? Many outside of Canada have never heard of the Maritime Canadian town of Halifax. Before leaving to start a year-long fellowship there, we both had to answer many questions from family and friends about...

‘The Sun does not forget a village just because it is too small’ – African proverb

1 November 2014 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Solar powered hearing aids In the middle of the morning of January 24, 2002, I had been in Otse for only three days, a village of 3500 in the south of Botswana, when I heard a knock at the door....