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Interacoustics continues successful online training
Throughout the corona pandemic, the Interacoustics Academy has hosted numerous online training events for audiology and ENT professionals.
Is there any point giving postoperative oral steroids after a FESS?
It is well accepted that when medical treatment fails for chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS), endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) is more effective than continuing with medical therapy alone. A variety of postoperative care options are available, including saline irrigation, in office debridement,...
Bell’s palsy outcomes
Bell’s palsy is a common, idiopathic, unilateral facial paresis or paralysis of sudden onset. This retrospective study reviewed the records of 193 patients diagnosed with Bell’s palsy. The patient’s clinical data, House-Brackman (h-B) grade, and data from five electrophysiological tests...
Frozen sections; a systematic review
This systematic review and meta-analysis looked at 5 studies assessing the impact of intraoperative frozen section analysis on final margin status, locoregional recurrence and survival in patients with an oral squamous cell carcinoma. The analysis showed no significant difference in...
Doing it for the men: diversifying the speech and language therapy profession
It is known that many health professions are dominated by females, particularly the allied health professions, such as speech and language therapy. This is more pronounced in the US than in the UK, Australia and other countries. The authors of...PLUM: using parent observations to identify persistent otitis media
Can parent observations help identify persistent otitis media sooner? PLUM uses everyday listening behaviours to flag children who may need urgent specialist care. Otitis media (OM) remains one of the most persistent health inequities facing Indigenous children globally. While prevalence...Matthew Clark: full-time otologist, spare-time sculptor
Drilling a temporal bone may seem like torture to some trainee surgeons. To others it is but a stepping stone to something altogether grander... I took Art A-level a year early so as not to interfere with the ‘important subjects’,...
Parathyroid Surgery: Fundamental and Advanced Concepts
A delight to see yet another comprehensive textbook, dealing exclusively with multiple aspects of parathyroid disease and its current management. David Terris, William Duke and Janice Pasieka have co-edited this 248 page textbook divided into 22 well thought out chapters...
Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, Clinical Reference Guide – 5th Edition
In 11 chapters over 800 pages, Pasha and Golub have once again published an updated, popular and concise handbook sought by trainees all across the globe. Each chapter covers a range of sections from anatomy, physiology and diagnostic to new...
What type of sensitivity?
It is true that the different types of decreased sound tolerance conditions are, in general, poorly defined and the lines between them blurry. Hyperacusis? Loudness recruitment? Misophonia? Phonophobia? Sensory overload in noise? This paper aims to provide reference data for...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...
