1 May 2016
| Muaaz Tarabichi (Prof), Chris Coulson
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ENTA - Otology
Guest Editor, Chris Coulson, speaks to Dr Muaaz Tarabichi, a pioneer of endoscopic ear surgery, about how he has seen the technique evolve during his career, what challenges early EES practitioners have faced and his predictions for the future of...
1 July 2017
| Giuseppe Panetti (Prof), Chris Coulson
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ENTA - Otology
Giuseppe Panetti is a renowned otologist and one of the forerunners of endoscopic ear surgery. One of his major contributions to ENT has been through designing bespoke equipment to assist in some of the challenges of operating endoscopically. In this...
The International Federation of Head and Neck Oncologic Societies (IFHNOS) offers an online fellowship training programme for advanced trainees wishing to subspecialise in head and neck surgery and oncology. Emma Stapleton speaks with the Chairman of the Board of Directors...
Optical cochlear implants combine optogenetics and light-based hardware to overcome limits of electrical CIs, promising sharper frequency resolution and more natural hearing. Cochlear implants (CIs) are among the most successful neuroprosthetic devices in modern medicine, restoring speech perception to hundreds...
Australia and New Zealand launch the first regional Living Guidelines for Adult Cochlear Implantation, setting a unified, evidence-informed framework to improve access, consistency and outcomes. The Australia and New Zealand Hearing Health Collaborative (ANZ HHC) has unveiled Living Guidelines for...
Therese Schembri, Higher specialist trainee in ENTA highly successful French-Maltese ORL symposium hosted by Professor Adrian Agius was held in Malta in November 2025. ORL-75 refers to the post code of Paris. Forty Parisian ORL specialists and head and neck...
AI is seemingly going to be ubiquitous. How do we as ENT clinicians help to shape its direction? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping modern medicine. Algorithmic analysis is now influencing decisions once made solely by clinicians. Yet, in surgical specialties...
3 September 2026
| Mariella Fortune-Ely, Talisa Ross, Leyla Ozbek, Rishi Sharma, Catherine Rennie
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ENTA - General
Recognising handedness could help create a more inclusive surgical environment. A team from Imperial College and Cambridge explores the challenges and practical solutions. Surgical disciplines require a high level of fine motor skills. Many procedures in ENT simultaneously challenge a...
Clinicians often encounter patients with a Type A tympanogram who still present with conductive hearing loss. Traditional 226 Hz tympanometry has served as a reliable tool in audiology and otolaryngology practices since the 1970s, yet it often misses subtle variations...
In light of pneumococcal vaccination programmes, is otitis media evolving to have a different natural history? Acute otitis media (AOM) is a major public health problem in children worldwide, as it is the leading bacterial infection and first cause of...
In this article, the authors describe the retrosigmoid approach to a vestibular schwannoma, using an ultrasonic bone aspirator as an alternative to the standard drill. Vestibular schwannomas (VS) are benign, usually slow-growing tumours of the vestibular nerve. Management of VS...
In this useful and practical article, the authors describe their use of transnasal oesophagoscopy, including the range of clinical scenarios in which it is used. What is TNO? Transnasal oesphagoscopy (TNO) is a technique that can be used in the...