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High intensity, high impact: tackling waiting lists one HIT at a time
A monthly high intensity theatre list in Sheffield shows how smart planning, teamwork and focus can dramatically reduce long ENT waiting lists. Finally, after many years of training, I’ve started my first consultant post – only to become part of...How trainees can make major contributions to practice
At a time when many of our trainees feel poorly supported and disheartened, the formation of a National ENT Trainee Research Network (Integrate) has been a major advance, enabling them to develop and execute research projects directly relevant to clinical...The artificial eardrum: how an eggshell membrane fed a German ENT family
In the pre-antibiotic era, purulent otitis media often resulted in a permanent eardrum perforation with hearing loss. In addition to pig or fish bladders, eggshell membranes and cigarette paper were used as eardrum prostheses. I have vivid personal boyhood memories...BSO Annual Meeting & Juniors Day
Irene Benaran (left), ENT CDF and Noah Evans Harding (right), ENT ST4, University Hospital Monklands, Lanarkshire, UK. The theme of this year's British Society of Otology (BSO) annual meeting was ‘The Past, Present and Future of Otology’. To introduce aspiring...BAA Awards 2020
In a year with a whole new set of challenges for everyone, the BAA Award nominations show the continued difference people make to both patients' and colleagues’ lives. The BAA 2020 Award winners are as follows: BAA Student of the...Recalcitrant chronic rhinosinusitis: What to do next?
Whilst the majority of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) will significantly improve with treatment, we are sometimes left with a ‘hard-core’ of nasal cripples who fail to improve despite our best efforts. How can we deal with these patients? Valerie...BACO International 2026
By Katharine Hamlett, ENT Registrar, Northwest Deanery, Nathan Walker, ENT Registrar Northwest Deanery (see below for report on NEST at BACO) BACO International 2026 arrived in Glasgow this July, bringing together delegates from across the full breadth of otolaryngology for...Partnership between fashion and hearing care
Fashion brand HAN Kjøbenhavn and GN, a global leader in hearing technology, have joined forces to challenge stigma and misperceptions around hearing aids. HAN Kjøbenhavn marks the launch of their new collection with this partnership, which aims to elevate hearing aids from being a medical necessity to a form of self-expression that should be celebrated.
Fitting and Dispensing Hearing Aids, Second Edition
As you might expect from two authors of such stature, this book is extremely effective and well written. In form it is as close to a pop-science book as one could get while still being very much focussed for those...
Patient and Family-Centered Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
This book highlights the importance of giving patient and family-centred care (PFCC) in clinic to those with a communication difference. Input is included from informed healthcare professionals, and its focus is on the ‘how to’ with evidenced-based methods for improving...
Allergy testing in children with beta-lactam hypersensitivity
The beta-lactam antibiotic is commonly used in treating ENT infections in childhood. However, its use can be limited by reported hypersensitivity or allergy to the antibiotic. This is largely attributed to the previous development of skin rashes while being on...
