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Upper airway endoscopy: achieving a balanced service whilst minimising the conflict of sustainability

3 September 2024 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
Nasal endoscopes present a unique challenge in balancing sustainability and practicality. Both disposable and reusable scopes may have distinct roles in modern practice. Flexible endoscopy of the upper aerodigestive tract is an essential technique that facilitates detailed assessment of the...

The effects of leisure noise exposure on young people’s hearing

1 January 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
There is growing concern regarding the effects of leisure noise exposure on young people’s auditory system. Information provided by healthcare professionals should be evidence-based; Hannah Keppler discusses some recent findings about hearing in young people. Excessive noise exposure can lead...

Do certain chronic medications increase dysphagia in older people?

1 January 2017 | | Acute geriatric unit, Aged, Deglutition, Deglutition disorders, Drugs, Medication
Oropharyngeal dysphagia is known to affect a high number of older people in the community, in care homes and in acute geriatric admissions to hospital. The authors of this study have recognised that many older people take drugs for chronic...

Cochlear Implant International Community of Action: closing the gap in CI provision

8 March 2021
The 25 February was International Cochlear Implant (CI) Day. Over 50 years after the introduction of CIs, how far have we progressed in ensuring access to CI and CI services for those who could benefit? Only between five and 10%...

Post-Covid dizziness disability

6 November 2024 | | ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
An estimated 750 million people worldwide were affected by Covid-19. A significant proportion have been left with long-term symptoms for which the World Health Organization has proposed the term ‘post-Covid condition’ (PCC). Dizziness is but one of the symptoms. Dizziness...

Laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) in posterior laryngitis

1 January 2015 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - ENT | Posterior laryngitis, Laryngo-pharyngeal reflux, Motilin, Functional gastrointestinal disorder, Health-related quality of life
The authors of this study investigated the prevalence of acid reflux in the proximal oesophagus and functional gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with posterior laryngitis. They analysed plasma motilin as well as health-related quality of life (HRQOL) questionnaires before and after...

Office-based intralesional corticosteroids injections for subglottic stenosis. Is it effective?

1 October 2018 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Subglottic and proximal tracheal stenosis in adults has three main aetiologies: (a) prolonged endotracheal intubation; (b) idiopathic; (C) rheumatologic related. Endoscopic dilation is the mainstay treatment strategy for subglottic and proximal tracheal stenosis. Its major limitation is restenosis requiring repeated...

Vestibular rehabilitation therapy: diagnosis based strategies

1 November 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
In his second article on this topic (see here for the first article), Richard E Gans explains how to use vestibular rehabilitation therapy to treat vestibular patients, and demonstrates why this method of diagnosis based strategies has proved so successful....

A soprano’s demise: a cautionary tale for the thyroid surgeon

4 March 2024 | | ENTA - ENT
Prior to the mid-19th century, thyroid surgery was considered excessively dangerous. The emergence of anaesthetic, antisepsis and improved instrumentation, however, increased its feasibility and frequency in Europe. The unhurried, judiciously antiseptic and haemostatic approach, advocated by Kocher, was popularised and...

ENT & Audiology News distributor in Spain, Puntolab Audición, celebrates its first anniversary

6 July 2021
Puntolab Audición has a sound room where the sound environments of patients’ daily lives are simulated, and where hearing aids can be fitted more accurately, anticipating any issues that may arise. It could be called a ‘wind tunnel’ for hearing...

Confederation of European ORL Societies - your society!

8 January 2024 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Paediatrics, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery
Per Cayé-Thomasen is a professor of otology and skull base surgery in Copenhagen. In Milan, he succeeded Cem Meco as the president of the CEORL-HNS. Under his presidency, the confederation has continued to develop its educational activities and encourage professional...

What’s new in laryngology: the next 10 years!

1 May 2018 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
At a time of unprecedented technological advances, Taran Tatla and Jonathan Fishman gaze into the laryngological crystal ball… Introduction The recent explosion in science, technology and innovation takes us into a new era, with the opportunity and capability to transform...