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Mindfulness meditation: how personal experience of managing severe pain contributes to understanding tinnitus management

6 January 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus
In this interesting article the author describes the potential benefit of mindfulness in the management of tinnitus, using a case report to illustrate this.This may well be an additional direction we can suggest for our patients. Mindfulness is a word...

Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise

1 July 2018 | | ENTA - ENT
Our irrepressible Features Editor, Chris Potter, explores the limits of ignorance. I’m not sure about you, but I seem to exist in a sea of incompetence and ignorance, constantly surrounded by amateurish chumps and feckless underachievers. Now, a lesser man...

The role of the respiratory physician in sleep medicine

1 May 2015 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
ENT surgeons may feel that they are the first point of referral for the majority of patients with snoring and possible obstructive sleep apnoea, but in reality a significant number of patients with sleep-disordered breathing (of any cause) are seen...

The ENT operating theatre viewed down the retrospectoscope

7 January 2021 | | ENTA - ENT
We learn much of our future by looking at our past; Douglas MacMillan provides us with a fascinating glimpse into his years as a junior doctor. The operating theatre was a somewhat alien environment in the late 1960s: theatre sisters...

What has NAIROS taught us about septoplasty?

30 October 2024 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Rhinoplasty
Septoplasty is a commonly performed procedure worldwide for nasal obstruction associated with a deviated nasal septum. In the UK, with long waiting lists for septoplasty, there is a large and unexplained variation in the incidence of this procedure between individual...

In conversation with Dr Eugene Myers: Education, training, and leadership in the modern era

3 September 2021 | | ENTA - ENT
It is an honour to hear from Dr Eugene Myers, who shares his experience with us, and his opinions and advice on the current circumstances for training and trainees. His energy, vitality and work ethic in his late 80s are...

Surgical technology and operating room safety failures: lessons from vascular and general surgery

1 January 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
Background – surgical technology and otolaryngology An estimated 234 million major surgical procedures are performed annually worldwide. This requires the interaction of multidisciplinary teams with varying contributions of surgical technology and therefore makes surgical procedures prone to multiple sources of...

Sleep apnoea in children with craniofacial syndromes

1 May 2015 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Paediatrics, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Whilst snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea are relatively common diagnoses in paediatric ENT, children with craniofacial syndromes take the problem to the next level. Robert Nash and Michelle Wyatt describe the Great Ormond Street multidisciplinary approach to treating this complex...

European power women in otolaryngology: a focus on Laura Viani, Ireland’s first female otolaryngologist

1 September 2019 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Auditory Implants
Professor Laura Viani is a Consultant Otolaryngologist at Beaumont Hospital and Temple Street University Children’s Hospital and has been a member of Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland for the last 17 years. As the first female...

MDT clinics for adults with learning disabilities and hearing loss

30 April 2020 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Healthcare providers can have limitations and challenges providing optimum care for patients with intellectual disabilities. Siobhan Brennan and Susanna Goodhart highlight key professionals and carers who may be instrumental when trying to deliver good management and care along with other...

What is Transnasal Humidified Rapid-Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange (THRIVE)?

1 May 2018 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
THRIVE is a physiological mechanism for oxygenating and ventilating patients who are under general anaesthesia and who have diminished or absent respiratory effort [1]. Classical ventilation requires bulk flow of gases into and out of the lungs driven by chest...

A one-stop state of the art, non-profit healthcare facility in Pune, India

1 March 2017 | | ENTA - ENT
In 2001, a non-profit healthcare facility was founded in Pune India, providing low and middle income group patients with treatment, not only at a minimum cost, but of a quality which bears the stamp of approval by the Royal College...