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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy and flap reconstruction: does it help?

1 May 2015 | | free flap reconstruction, hyperbaric oxygen, osteoradionecrosis, radiation complications, surgical complications
This is a multicentresite retrospective review from four clinics in the USA on patients who received radical debridement and free flap reconstruction for osteoradionecrosis (ORN) between 1 Jan 1995 and 30 June 2011. Patients were stratified divided based on having...

Balloons – more complicated than first thought?

1 March 2019 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery | balloon sinuplasty, cerebrospinal fluid leak, chronic rhinosinusitis, endoscopic sinus surgery, functional endoscopic sinus surgery, pneumocephalus, sinus surgery, sinusitis
This study describes the complications seen after balloon sinuplasty (BSP) - a commonly performed procedure (particularly in the USA where it is often performed as an office procedure) versus traditional functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS). The data source was a...
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Bilateral medialisation thyroplasty for presbylaryngis

1 September 2019 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy | Atrophy, Bilateral, Medialization, Presbylaryngis, Thyroplasty
This retrospective case series explores the voice outcomes for 21 patients diagnosed with presbylaryngis who underwent bilateral medialisation thyroplasty at a university medical centre in Portland, Oregon, USA. Silastic was implanted in 17 patients; hydroxyapatite in four. Significant improvements were...

The nice therapist effect: does the therapeutic relationship matter?

3 July 2023 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy | speech-language pathology, client-clinician relationship, common factors, salivary gland, therapeutic relationship, working alliance
Quality of relationships is considered a core component of all speech and language therapy work, yet there is little agreement of what constitutes a therapeutic relationship. This study describes a scoping review to map existing evidence that has investigated this...

ENT and evidence-based medicine: How do they benefit each other?

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - ENT
How do we assess evidence, and how should ENT surgeons use EBM? Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is the practice of medicine based upon high quality scientific research. There are several formal definitions of EBM, the most widely quoted being that of...

Subjective tinnitus – adding mutebutton™ to your tinnitus toolbox

1 January 2015 | | ENTA - Tinnitus
Neurophysiologic tinnitus or subjective tinnitus is typically a sound or a number of sounds that originate from the auditory nervous system. They are unwanted sounds that do not exist in the external environment. They can be heard in one or...

What’s new in electrophysiology?

1 May 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Steve Bell is a lecturer at the University of Southampton and a member of the British Society of Audiology’s (BSA) Special Interest Group in Electrophysiology. Given the current surge in interest in electrophysiology, both in rehabilitation and diagnostic arenas, Steve...

Audiological monitoring in ototoxicity - Are we doing enough?

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
In this article Ghada Al-Malky explores the dichotomy of life-saving, yet hearing loss-causing medication, and questions whether the hearing healthcare community is doing enough to prevent preventable hearing loss. Ototoxicity is the damage to hearing and / or balance functions...

Use of automated audiometry for faster patient access to audiology services?

30 April 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Manual audiometry has long been the gold standard for establishing hearing thresholds. In recent years, a number of automated audiometry applications have reached the market. In this article, a team from Ireland have put a version of automated audiometry to...

In conversation with Professor Anne Schilder

1 January 2016 | | ENTA - ENT
Flying the flag for research in ENT, hearing and balance Anne Schilder is an NIHR Research Professor and leads the evidENT team at the Ear Institute at University College London. She also holds a Chair in Paediatric ENT at UCL...

The use of THRIVE in laryngology and phonosurgery

1 May 2018 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
The team in Lewisham has been using THRIVE for our phonosurgical cases for about a year. Here, we discuss the pros, cons and potential pitfalls of setting up and using THRIVE as ventilation during anaesthesia rather than using an ML...

Audiology in this issue...Psychology (May/Jun19)

1 May 2019 |
Alex Griffiths-Brown, BSc(Hons), MRes, Audiologist, The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust, Shrewsbury, UK. E: alex.griffiths-brown@nhs.net@griffithsbrown1 Whether using ‘client centred counselling’ [1] when seeing adult hearing aid patients, employing motivational interviewing [2] during tinnitus consultations or considering the stages of...