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Outcomes after facial nerve preservation surgery for large vestibular schwannomas

1 March 2015 | | ENTA-ENT
Large vestibular schwannomas (Koos grade three or four) are traditionally treated by surgical resection. Gross total resection of such large tumours often results in facial nerve dysfunction. Hence facial nerve preservation surgery was introduced in which maximal surgical resection is...
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Implantable Hearing Devices

3 September 2021 | | ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
Implantable Hearing Devices is aimed principally at ENT surgeons in training and as a resource for otological surgeons wanting to know more about the devices available. The authors state it is a clear, concise, and comprehensive book offering answers to...

Assessing Middle Ear Function in Infants

1 March 2014 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Paediatrics
This book fills a significant void in the clinical literature. There are key reference texts for each area of clinical work which should be on every departmental bookshelf, and Assessing Middle Ear Function in Infants joins that list. It might...

70 years of Akustika

2 January 2024
For the past 12 months, the Swiss Association of Hearing Aid Acoustics has been celebrating its 70th anniversary and looking back at its milestones.

Measuring client-centred outcomes in audiology: towards a parsimonious solution

1 January 2018 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
From an international driver to the client-centred care model; in this article Anthony Hogan explores outcome measures for individual goal setting and measuring those outcomes. Introduction When people present for hearing help, they are typically looking for solutions to the...

Cochlear implantation for single-sided deafness and asymmetric hearing loss

1 September 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
Continuing our sub-theme of cochlear implantation candidacy, Richard Irving and Raghu Kumar review the principles and benefits of cochlear implantation in individuals who have an asymmetric hearing loss. It is well known that cochlear implantation improves auditory capacity, and in...

Noise monitoring on a smartphone

1 March 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
“The smartphone has more computing power than was used to put the first man on the moon.” Robert Eikelboom discusses the potential of the smartphone as an effective noise monitoring device. Noise exposure and public health Excessive exposure to noise...

What’s new in implantable devices? New indications in cochlear implantation

1 May 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Paediatrics
For over 40 years, cochlear implant procedures have steadily increased. Outcomes for patients are improving as a result of modified surgical techniques, a wider portfolio of electrode arrays, advances in programming strategies, access to improved technology and a better understanding...

Unravelling the mystery of hyperacusis with pain

1 January 2019 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Tinnitus
When a person says that sound causes them pain, how can we understand this, and determine what processes are involved? Bryan Pollard navigates us through what is presently known. Pain has long been underrepresented – and often, completely overlooked –...

Untangling the emotional and physiological aspects of hyperacusis

1 January 2019 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Tinnitus
In hyperacusis, the physiological and the emotional aspects can become deeply entwined. Dr Sarah Theodoroff draws us into her perspectives on this important aspect of the condition. Background Sounds and Emotions The basic act of hearing sounds triggers an emotional...

The role of metrics in studies of hearing and cognition

26 June 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Neurotology
Introduction When perceiving sounds in real-world listening environments, older adults encounter several sources of degradation that can interfere with the perceptual process (Figure 1). Target signals (i.e. the sounds that a listener wants to focus on) have specific acoustic characteristics...

The ear-brain connection in cochlear implant users: learning to listen again

26 June 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Neurotology
While the cochlear implant (CI) has been a tremendous success in restoring hearing to deaf individuals, the implantation outcome still varies across CI users [1]. Some demographic factors, such as duration of deafness, and peripheral factors, such as electrode placement,...