Journal Reviews

Acute ENT activity in a teaching hospital

7 January 2020 | | Head and Neck, Otology, Rhinology / Sinus | Emergency, medical education, ENT, Training, Healthcare cost

This Belgian prospective audit attempted to provide justification for the provision of a 24-hour emergency service at a large 1038-bed teaching hospital (with 31 ENT consultants). The authors looked at a one-month period during which 190 patients were admitted. They...

Can junior doctors provide immediate help in airway and other ENT emergencies?

1 September 2016 | | Accident and Emergency Department, Education, Otolaryngology

In the present trends for centralisation of ENT emergency services, availability of immediate middle grade or senior help in acute ENT emergencies does not always exist on site and hence the role of junior doctors in handling this is enhanced...

Influence of atmospheric conditions on post tonsillectomy secondary haemorrhage

1 March 2016 | | Australia, Emergency Service, Hemorrhage, Hospital, Humans, Humidity, Hydrostatic Pressure, Otolaryngology, Seasons, Temperature, Tonsillectomy, Vapor Pressure

Haemostasis in epistaxis and a good few other conditions outside the field of otolaryngology seem to be affected by the weather. It is generally thought that dry and hot environment encourages secondary post tonsillectomy haemorrhage. Variations in water vapour pressure,...