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Video-Based Aural Rehabilitation Guide: Enhancing Communication in Children and Adults Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing – Second Edition
This second edition of Video-Based Aural Rehabilitation Guide by Linda L Daniel and Sneha V Bharadwaj is an excellent treasure trove of resources for both students and junior practitioners across audiology, speech and language therapy and deaf education. Readers are...New ENT Trans-oral NEO Needle from Soluvos Medical
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Large septal perforation repair
Repair of large nasal septal perforations (NSP) can be challenging due to limited availability of surrounding nasal tissue, mucosal tension and diminished vascularity. The authors of this manuscript included 38 studies involving 408 patients with large NSP, with aetiologies ranging...
For a better evaluation of neonatal hearing loss
The authors conducted a retrospective observational study on 112 neonates tested with auditory brainstem response (ABR) and auditory steady-state response (ASSR). The main aim was to compare hearing thresholds obtained by ASSR, ABR and behavioural audiometry at different frequencies and...
Platelet-rich plasma-cartilage tympanoplasty
This systematic review and meta-analysis of five studies (n=234 patients) reports the effectiveness of type I tympanoplasty with cartilage and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) compared with type I cartilage tympanoplasty alone for closure of dry tympanic membrane perforations. This is an...
Association of eustachian tube dysfunction in children undergoing adenotonsillectomy for sleep-disordered breathing
The need for this study arises from the fact that after undergoing adenotonsillectomy, some children continue to suffer from symptoms of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) which overlap with symptoms of eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD), such as cognitive and behavioural impairment, resulting...
Are you aware of communication partner training?
Increased isolation is a common sequalae of communication difficulties associated with traumatic brain injury. This is often because both the person and the people around the person are unsure how to adjust their conversation behaviours to compensate for these difficulties....
Speech and language therapists have the skills to provide all practisable supports in compliance with Mental Capacity Act guidance
Deciding where to live can be complex. However, people with communication difficulties can find this even more difficult, and they are often completed excluded from the process. In the past, people with complex communication difficulties may have been placed in...
Nodal metastasis from thin tongue tumours
This is a retrospective study over the course of 7 years, in which 240 patients were assessed. All had excision of a T1/T2 tongue primary tumour with an elective neck dissection of level I–IV with or without reconstruction. Radiotherapy was...
Is tonsillectomy performed any better by trained surgeons compared with trainees?
Tonsillectomy is one of the most common operations performed in otolaryngology. Training in this procedure therefore needs to begin early in the formative years, while also complying with patient safety and cost-effectiveness requirements. This randomised prospective study compares tonsillectomy with...
