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Review of pituitary tumour pathology

1 July 2021 | | Rhinology / Sinus, Skull Base Surgery | Craniopharyngioma, Germ cell, Inflammatory, Neurohypophysitis, Neuropathology, Pituitary adenoma, Sellar
This is an excellent review article covering the pathology of pituitary adenomas (PA) as well as rare sellar lesions like lymphocytic hypophysitis that require aggressive treatment. The authors have preserved the 2017 World Health Organization (WHO) classification of PA and...

Disrupting assumptions: how to teach queer concepts to speech and language therapists

3 July 2023 | | Speech and Language Therapy
Policy requiring speech and language therapy courses in America to include multicultural content in their courses was only formally introduced in 1994. Yet sexual orientation was still considered a controversial topic at this time, and it was only in the...

The nice therapist effect: does the therapeutic relationship matter?

3 July 2023 | | Speech and Language Therapy | speech-language pathology, client-clinician relationship, common factors, salivary gland, therapeutic relationship, working alliance
Quality of relationships is considered a core component of all speech and language therapy work, yet there is little agreement of what constitutes a therapeutic relationship. This study describes a scoping review to map existing evidence that has investigated this...

Healthcare economics and device approvals

9 October 2017 | | Cervical total disc arthroplasty, Clinical trial design, Noninferiority, Randomized controlled trial, Statistical review, Superiority
We use several FDA-approved devices in our clinical practice but are rarely aware about the stringent procedures followed by manufacturers, as well as the FDA, before the devices become commercially available. The authors of this paper undertook a comprehensive review...

Auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder

1 May 2016 |
This is a concise summary of auditory neuropathy and current knowledge of the disorder through review of a recently published article. The terminology of this hearing disorder implies the site of the lesion is neural; however the characteristic electrophysical signature...

International classification of BPPV

1 May 2016 | | Vertigo, criteria, diagnosis, nystagmus, positional
In the past few years, the Bárány Society has made great strides in defining and classifying vestibular disorders along the lines of the international classification of diseases. This article addresses the diagnostic criteria for BPPV, the commonest cause of vertigo....

Screening: evaluating the outcomes of early intervention

1 January 2015 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
Newborn hearing screening is now the accepted standard of care in several countries, and is becoming increasingly more established worldwide. White [1] reported eight countries screening over 90% of newborns, ten screening between 25-89% of births and a further 54...

Anaesthesia under fire

1 November 2019 | | ENT
Kate Prior is an anaesthetist who has, quite literally, been there, done that. In this article she manages to use words on a page to bring to life some of the conditions and challenges she faced as a member of...

ENT and audiology in the Land of a Thousand Hills

4 March 2024 | | ENT, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Adult, Otology
Rwanda is a beautiful country known as the ‘Land of a Thousand Hills’. It is located in the Great Rift Valley in East Africa and shares borders with Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, all offering direct...

Evidence-based hospital management of epistaxis

1 September 2016 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
Epistaxis is the most common presentation to acute ENT services in the UK. However, there are currently no nationally accepted guidelines for its management. The British Rhinological Society, ENT UK and INTEGRATE (The National ENT Trainee Research Network) are working...

Sugammadex

1 November 2019 | | ENT
Scott Russell is an anaesthetist with an almost unrivalled experience of complex head and neck surgery, and has seen all manner of new ideas come and go. However, in this article he describes a new pharmaceutical agent that is already...

Aspirin desensitisation for aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD)

2 March 2022 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
In this article, the authors describe the importance of identifying aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis refractory to standard medical treatment. This can then open the door to considering aspirin desensitisation treatment which, in their hands, has proven...