Search

You searched for "research"

1935 results found

Good Vibrations Day celebrates bone conduction

6 May 2024
Swedish audiology and sound-processing company Oticon Medical has just celebrated its fourth Good Vibrations Day.

NASBS (North American Skull Base Society) 29th Annual Meeting

15 February 2019 -17 February 2019
Report By: Gauri Mankekar, OLOL Hearing and Balance Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA The 29th Annual North American Skull Base Society (NASBS) Meeting was organised by President James Evans with co-chairs, Amir Dehdashti and Adam Zanation. Delegates consisted of neurosurgeons,...

BIOHIT HealthCare to host symposium on gastric cancer at BSG LIVE'24

10 June 2024 | Awards, Conferences & Anniversaries, Company Profiles
BIOHIT HealthCare is attending BSG LIVE'24 at ICC Birmingham from the 17th to the 20th of June, where it will be showcasing its broad range of gastrointestinal diagnostic solutions.

OBITUARY: Peter Valentin Tomazic (1982-2024)

7 June 2024 | Rhinology / Sinus, Skull Base Surgery, Head and Neck
By Wytske Fokkens & Claire Hopkins It is with shock and profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved friend, Valentin, who left us on June 3rd. Valentin was a bright, kind, and loving individual who touched the...

Widex UK & Ireland partner with Anglia Ruskin University

29 August 2023 | Company Profiles, Contracts & Distributors
Widex UK & Ireland and Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) announced in July, an exciting project designed to create added value for independent hearing care professionals and future audiology graduates within the UK & Ireland.
Safeguarding Physician Wellbeing book cover image.

Safeguarding Physician Wellbeing: Using Checklists for Personal, Professional and Psychological Safety

4 July 2024 | | ENT
‘Checklists’ in the operating room make for safer surgery, better handovers and improved patient care. Can we apply the principles we have learned since Atul Gawande and the WHO pioneered this approach to surgery to our own wellbeing as doctors,...
Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology journal cover image.

Lost and sound: exploring hyperbaric oxygen therapy for refractory SSNHL

4 July 2024 | | Audiology - Adult, Neurotology, Otology, Vestibular Disorders
Can hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) offer a breakthrough for patients with refractory sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL)? SSNHL is defined as acute hearing loss of ≥30 decibels in three consecutive frequencies within three days. Typically, it’s treated with two weeks...

What Plug?

1 July 2018 | | Audiology - Adult
For decades, audiologists have encouraged people to wear hearing protection when they attend concerts. Traditionally, the most accessible options have been foam plugs, which have limited appeal due to their poor sound quality. Disposable foam plugs absorb high frequency sounds...

International Federation of Head and Neck Oncologic Societies (IFHNOS): its programmes and impact on head and neck cancer worldwide

1 March 2016 | | ENT, Head and Neck
In the first article of this edition, we introduce IFHNOS, which has created a major impact on the landscape of head and neck cancer treatment and education over the past quarter of a century by offering a global platform amongst...

Improving cochlear-implant performance in the short- and medium-term

1 September 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Diagnostic, Auditory Implants, ENT, Otology, Paediatric ENT
Can bespoke cochlear implant programming strategies reduce the variability seen in patient performance with an implant? Bob Carlyon reviews the current situation and gives us a glimpse of the future. Although many cochlear implant (CI) patients understand speech well in...

Should human beings sleep in the prone position?

1 January 2017 | | ENT
Are we poised for a ‘sleep prone’ campaign to reduce nocturnal apnoeas? Prof Armin Moniri presents a fascinating account of how sleeping position can affect obstructive sleep apnoea. Inspired by sleeping position of other mammals, a new mattress and pillow...

AOT ENT Education - A new initiative

14 July 2020
AOT is to curate a national and free resource of consultant delivered teaching. So far we have edited, time-stamped (to save scrolling) and mapped to curriculum over 50 videos from national ENT education schemes from around the country, totalling...