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Endotypes in chronic rhinosinusitis: clinical relevance

3 May 2024 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
Identifying endotypes enables personalised therapies that target specific pathophysiological processes, potentially resulting in better treatment outcomes for patients. The contemporary model of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) pathogenesis revolving around endotype, in combination with an expanding toolbox of diagnostics and therapeutics, enables...

Audible Contrast Threshold – a new test to guide setting help-in-noise features in hearing aids

4 March 2024 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
A new diagnostic test that is quick and has directly applicable results to hearing aid settings has arrived, but how does it work? Leigh Martin has the answers. In an earlier article for ENT & Audiology News, Parmar and Rajasingam...

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.

New Probe Placement Indicator for Affinity Compact

25 July 2022 | Research & Development
Interacoustics is happy to release a Probe Placement Indicator for their Affinity Compact – a new feature which makes probe placement much easier and faster when doing real-ear measurements.
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Safeguarding Physician Wellbeing: Using Checklists for Personal, Professional and Psychological Safety

4 July 2024 | | ENTA-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,...

Tonsillectomy in adolescents

1 January 2017 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA-Paediatrics
Tonsillectomy is one of the most common operations performed across the developed world. Salil Sood and Ray Clarke discuss the special considerations that apply when performing this procedure on adolescent patients. Tonsillitis in teenagers can be exceptionally painful and disruptive....

Multi-channel cochlear implants: past, present and future

1 September 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
Forty years since the first multi-channel devices were implanted, who better than Ingeborg Hochmair, who has been a key figure throughout their evolution, to offer her thoughts on the past, present and future of multi-channel cochlear implants? Read on for...

The National Bone Conducting Hearing Implant Registry

1 November 2016 | | ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
Are you an otologist with an interest in implant surgery? Is your unit on the registry? If not, you’d better have a good excuse after reading this… What is the National BCHI Registry? The National Bone Conducting Hearing Implant (BCHI)...

General overview of endoscopic ear surgery: advantages and principles

1 May 2016 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
The philosophy of endoscopic ear surgery presents surgeons with a tricky concept – does the magnificent view make up for the fact I need to operate with one hand? In this article, Jane Lea discusses the advantages of operating transcanal...

Upper airway endoscopy: achieving a balanced service whilst minimising the conflict of sustainability

3 September 2024 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
Nasal endoscopes present a unique challenge in balancing sustainability and practicality. Both disposable and reusable scopes may have distinct roles in modern practice. Flexible endoscopy of the upper aerodigestive tract is an essential technique that facilitates detailed assessment of the...

Developments in diagnostic approaches for acutely dizzy patients

27 February 2020 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
The acutely dizzy patient can be a diagnostic and management dilemma for emergency departments and general practitioners, with many patients consequently having delayed access to specialised assessment and treatment. David Jay tells us about HINTS, a bedside test that can...

Reflections on educational gatherings in the COVID era

9 September 2020 | | ENTA-Covid-19, ENTA-ENT
The COVID pandemic has brought disruption and uncertainty for the organisers of medical conferences. ENT and audiology have always thrived on a healthy exchange of views and the sharing of knowledge across subspecialties and across national boundaries. Ray Clarke asked...