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Person-centred care, enhancing audiology student understanding across the globe

4 July 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Over 200 students registered for a multinational virtual event facilitated by the Ida Institute. The aim was to determine levels of student understanding and approaches to person-centred care (PCC), alongside the opportunity to evaluate the benefits of this approach to...

She’s On Call - @ShesOnCall

14 July 2020
Dr Sujana Chandrasekhar and Dr Marina Kurian began a web show, She’s On Call, that had 5000 views on the first day and has had over 15,000 views after three shows. By the end of March 2020 Emergency departments and, soon, entire hospitals were overwhelmed with very sick COVID-19 patients.

Clinical Management of Swallowing Disorders, Third Edition

1 September 2014 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
This is a comprehensive and readable text on swallowing disorders. The covered topics include the physiology of normal swallowing, aetiologies and mechanisms of abnormal swallowing, as well as assessment and management (including surgical, prosthetic and non-surgical). There is a detailed...

The sleep nasendoscopy learning curve

1 July 2017 | | DISE, Drug-induced sedation endoscopy, Obstructive sleep apnea hypoapnea syndrome, Sleep disordered breathing, Sleep endoscopy, VOTE classification
There seems to be no accepted way of surgically assessing patients with sleep disordered breathing (SDB). Because of this, clinicians fall roughly into three camps: those who just use one operation for all patients, those who have given up surgery...

Is there a ‘best’ ventilation tube?

1 November 2016 | | Complications, Extrusion, Material, Otorrhea, Secretory otitis media, Tympanostomy tubes, Ventilation tubes
Studies on grommet materials and sizes are not exactly new but this was a well-designed randomized study in Sweden with some useful findings. The extrusion rate and complications associated with four different ventilation tubes (grommets) were assessed prospectively in 400...

Understanding the NAL-NL3 Prescription System: a new era of personalised hearing aid fitting

4 September 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
The NAL-NL3 system marks a transformative step in hearing aid fitting, shifting from a one-size-fits-most prescription to a modular, patient-centred approach. Developed by the National Acoustic Laboratories, this new system integrates a core audiogram-based prescription with targeted modules to address...

From the editor NovDec 2021

1 November 2021 |
It is such a pleasure to see ever-increasing numbers of meetings going ahead in the coming months – after so much time away from physical gatherings, there seems to be a real hunger for in-person conferences where we can meet up with friends and colleagues.

EROC 2025 travel scholarships and video competition

27 March 2024
Submissions are now open for two awards being run in conjunction with the 14th Emirates Otorhinolaryngology Audiology Swallowing and Communication Disorders Congress (EROC 2025).

In conversation with Professor Claire Hopkins

3 March 2021 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
There can be few ENT surgeons who have had such a pivotal role in the COVID pandemic as Claire Hopkins. She has been instrumental in changing the diagnostic criteria, and has been a frequent presence in the media, as Sean...

How entrepreneurs can integrate hearables into their clinic

1 March 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Brian Taylor provides an interesting perspective on market segmentation of the hearing impaired population, and how as clinicians and entrepreneurs we need to be able to recognise the different approaches that are required to address the large percentage of the...

ENT in Ethiopia: Aksum-Barts Partnership

1 July 2017 | | ENTA - ENT
In keeping with many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia has a chronic lack of hospitals and doctors. Nadia Ashraf and Tim Crocker-Buqué tell us about a project which aims to improve training in ENT, in a hospital that has...

Transnasal oesophagoscopy (TNO)-guided secondary tracheoesophageal puncture (TEP) under local anaesthesia

7 January 2025 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Here, the authors describe a convenient use of the transnasal oesophagoscope to create a new tracheoesophageal puncture in the outpatient clinic setting. Tracheoesophageal puncture (TEP) with voice prosthesis insertion is a reliable and effective technique for surgical voice restoration (SVR)...