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Does salvage treatment in sudden sensorineural hearing loss work?

4 September 2023 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, Otology, ENTA-Tinnitus
Many treatment strategies for sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) have been discussed, but the high spontaneous recovery rate (32-65%) of idiopathic SSNHL and differing treatment guidelines make comparing outcomes difficult. Systemic steroids are the most common first-line therapy with significant...

Occupational dust exposure and nasal polyposis

1 January 2019 |
This interesting European cross-sectional study demonstrates a link between occupational dust exposure and the presence of nasal polyposis. A random sample of textile workers (215) and retail store employees (101) in Portugal was taken, with clinical data gathered through a...

Communicating with patients in 
‘Plain English’

1 January 2014 | | ENTA-ENT
Physicians have long been accused of using unnecessarily complicated language and impenetrable jargon as a way of maintaining their status, prestige and high earnings-potential, bamboozling the public and excluding them from meaningful discussion as part of what George Bernard Shaw...

Staphylococcus aureus as a cause of refractory chronic rhinosinusitis

1 July 2016 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
Staphylococcus aureus has long been linked to chronic rhinosinusitis, particularly recalcitrant cases. In this article, Alkis Psaltis describes how newer techniques have shown higher rates of S. aureus infection than were previously thought, and explains how the bacteria are able...

Rhinology: what does the future hold?

1 May 2017 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
David Kennedy surveys the past, the present and the future of rhinology practice and research. An evolution of understanding in rhinology The dramatic growth of clinical and translational research within the field of rhinology in recent years is illustrated by...

When things go wrong

1 September 2018 | | ENTA-ENT
The new-age, Paediatric Surgeon, Ray Clarke, (fear uasal, íseal), eloquently demands throwing off the shackles of the past and welcomes the dawning of an era of openness, transparency and candour, preferably suffused with compassion for both the patient and the...

Communication Disorders: a combined discipline of audiology and speech and language pathology – the Israeli perspective

1 May 2016 | | ENTA-ENT
Liat Kishon-Rabin provides an excellent summary of audiology training in Israel, encapsulating the development of audiology services in the country. Readers will be intrigued by the systematic approach taken to its development, and its pairing with speech and language pathology....

Audiology training in Australia

1 September 2018 |
There are many different ways to become an audiologist throughout the world and it is interesting to see how different some of the training routes can be. Wayne Wilson, an Associate Professor and the Head of Audiology at The University...

Enhancing and extending hearing care using Ida Telecare

1 March 2019 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Tele-audiology has been on our radar for a long while, and evidence shows that its application in clinical practice is beneficial to both patients and clinicians. Cherilee Rutherford discusses the benefits and gives an overview of the freely-available tools developed...

Audiology research: opportunities, career progression and leadership

1 September 2019 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
A career in research can, at first glance, seem far removed from the clinical world of audiology but is that really the case? In this article Melanie Ferguson explains the role of translational research in bridging this gap, as well...

Targeted focal parathyroidectomy

1 July 2019 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
Leanne Hamilton and Louise Clark describe their technique for helping to localise parathyoid adenomas. Surgically this can be difficult, so careful preoperative evaluation using imaging as described can help minimise difficulties intraoperatively when identifying the parathyroid adenoma. Preoperative imaging has...

Management of benign oesophageal strictures

30 April 2020 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Benign strictures of the upper oesophagus and pharynx, while not very common, can be a challenging condition to successfully manage. The authors of this article provide us with a detailed description of their technique for using the CO2 laser, balloon...