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Multidisciplinary airway simulation workshops: ‘preparing your team for the difficult airway’

1 September 2019 |
Can human factor issues be better addressed within a multidisciplinary learning environment? Would this improve team working and patient outcomes? Are these important training considerations? Mona Thornton discusses the experience of a multidisciplinary simulation airway workshop in the unit she...

Who’s minding the gap?

30 April 2020 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
In this article we focus on minding the gap between education and clinical audiology for children and young people who are deaf (CYPD) and their families, through interprofessional education. This article is provided by Dr Joy Rosenberg who leads the...

British Academy of Audiology Higher Training Scheme – Head of Service and trainee perspectives

5 January 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
For Jan/Feb 2022, we continue with the topic of the British Academy of Audiology Higher Training Scheme. We hear from Jane Beavan, Clinical and Professional Lead for Audiology/Clinical Scientist in Audiology, and Kim-Maree Collings, Senior Audiologist, from the Countess of...

Intratympanic treatments for subjective idiopathic tinnitus

24 May 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Tinnitus
Direct application of medication into the ear is long established, going back as far as written records. In the modern era, greater understanding of aural anatomy revealed that drugs instilled in the middle ear could potentially diffuse into the cochlea...

Drawing pictures and telling stories: treating tinnitus in childhood

24 May 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Tinnitus
There is increasing awareness that tinnitus is not restricted to adults. Indeed, the available evidence suggests that some experience of tinnitus in children is fairly common [1]. For many, tinnitus has little effect and requires limited or no intervention. For...

Access to and uptake of cochlear implants in the UK

1 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
Assessing demands on cochlear implant (CI) services is very important for both commissioners and clinicians in anticipating clinical need and funding requirements. Commercial CI’s were introduced in the late 1980s. Initial funding was from charitable sources. The first major advance...

A parent’s journey: beyond the diagnosis

1 January 2015 | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Tamsin Coates lives in Wallesey, UK and talks about coming to terms with the difficulties and joys of having two deaf children. Here she explains about the early days and the impact of their diagnosis upon the family. Thinking back...

Dr Marion Pfaender Down

1 January 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
“Dr Marion P Downs, an innovator in the field of paediatric audiology and a tireless advocate for the early identification of hearing loss, passed away on November 13, 2014. During her exemplary career at the University of Colorado Health Sciences...

Living with Usher syndrome

1 May 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Genetics, ENTA - Otology
“Usher people often still have sharp, clear central vision. It is the corner of their eye that is missing. This is why the Usher person often does not feel or look blind. In the early days they may not even...

When patient choice stands in the way of patient-centredness

1 July 2015 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Audiology - Adult
In the field of hearing care, there is increasing focus on ensuring patient autonomy and choice. Greater participation in decision making is supposed to result in better patient satisfaction. A study conducted in ENT and audiology clinics paradoxically suggests that...

Neural plasticity and aural rehabilitation

1 July 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Neurotology
Neural plasticity refers to an ability of the brain and central nervous system to change their structure and function or their reorganisation in response to environmental cues, experience, learning, behaviour, injury and / or diseases and treatments. Neural plasticity is...

Music and single-sided deafness: challenges and solutions

1 September 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Music is an integral part of many of our lives, providing entertainment, relaxation and a backing track to our past experiences. In this overview, Gemma Crundwell and David Baguley examine the impact of SSD on the perception of music and...