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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,...

ENT Handbook

26 July 2017
Medical students and residents are expected to absorb staggering amounts of information on an almost daily basis. Thankfully, app-based resources are rapidly emerging to ensure that the most important information can be accessed with a few swipes on a smartphone....

Rapid, non-invasive and differential diagnosis of laryngopharyngeal reflux

20 January 2022 | Company Profiles, Research & Development
Laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) is a significant condition that frequently goes undiagnosed at a primary care level, resulting in patients being unnecessarily referred to secondary care with symptoms such as a sore throat, persistent cough, vocal problems and issues with swallowing.

ENT and the Titanic

6 July 2020 | | ENTA-ENT
One otolaryngologist who perished on the ill-fated voyage of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912 was Dr Ernest Moraweck, a prominent physician with an interest in ENT (and ophthalmology), living in Frankfort, Kentucky, USA [1]. Moraweck was an inventive...

Temporoparietal fascia flap for blind sac closure

4 March 2024 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
Chronic ear disease can be challenging to manage and difficult for patients to live with. In this article, the authors describe their technique for otomastoid obliteration and blind sac closure of the external canal allowing for a more tolerable situation...

Are today’s implantable hearing devices better than conventional devices for patients with conductive and mixed hearing loss?

30 April 2021 | | ENTA-Auditory Implants
In March 2014, we published a paper in ENT & Audiology News, with a similar title. Below, an updated overview is presented of available devices (early 2021) for patients with conductive/mixed hearing loss. The focus is on effectiveness. Patients with...

Anaesthesia for excision of vestibular schwannomas

27 February 2020 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
The ‘shared airway’ relationship between ENT surgeons and anaesthetists is well documented. But ENT surgery and anaesthesia interact in numerous other ways, particularly in complex skull base surgery. What do our anaesthetic colleagues want us to know about vestibular schwannoma...

The death of Attila the Hun, a 70s film and Japanese cartoons

4 May 2023 | | ENTA-ENT
The 6th century Gothic monk, Jordanes, tells us that Attila the Hun, the notorious and allegedly merciless barbarian (who was a prime mover in the fall of the Roman Empire), died of a nosebleed on his wedding night in 453...

Olfaction in CRS

3 November 2022 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
Conventional teaching tells us that hyposmia in chronic rhinosinusitis is due to mechanical obstruction of the olfactory cleft. But it might be that the story is slightly more complicated than that. Olfactory dysfunction is a common feature of chronic rhinosinusitis...

Establishing a medical device company: an ENTrepreneur’s experience

1 March 2014 | | ENTA-ENT
In 2004, while I was suturing the mucopericondrial flaps for a septoplasty, I thought to myself, “there must be an easier and faster way of doing this”. Even though I had no formal training in business or medical device development,...

BACO: evolution and modernisation

1 January 2018 | | ENTA-ENT
Chairing the local organising committee is no small task, but it has a personal connection for Tim Woolford, as he tells us. I attended my first BACO in Manchester as a registrar, and have attended every one since. In July,...

What’s the appetite for clinical risk?

1 September 2018 | | ENTA-ENT
The first Professor and Chair of Medical Professionalism at RCSI and BSHS, Dubhfeasa Slattery provides an overview of how a desire for better healthcare at all levels can be harnessed and nourished, leading to a potential life-long interest in reducing...