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The keystone island perforator flap – expanding the toolbox for aesthetic nasal reconstruction
The complexity of nasal reconstruction lies in its dual objective: restoring structural integrity while preserving subtle contours and symmetry that define facial aesthetics. This retrospective cohort study from a single centre in the United States evaluated the effectiveness of the...Leightons and The Hearing Care Partnership Opens Registration for Groundbreaking New Clinical Conference: Oxygen 2025
Leightons Opticians & Hearing Care is excited to announce that registration is now open for Oxygen 2025, a pioneering clinical conference taking place on the 9th and 10th of May 2025. This highly anticipated event, hosted by the leading independent,...Introduction to speech testing
Let’s get back to basics: Dr Schoepflin introduces the concepts behind speech testing for hearing care professionals. While pure tone threshold testing is considered the ‘gold standard’ for assessing auditory sensitivity, the results of pure tone testing provide only limited...
Gender inequality across medical specialties in the United States
The authors of this study collected and evaluated 4222 surveys of patient satisfaction ratings of male and female residents across subspecialties in the United States. Half of the evaluated residents were females, with first and second year residents being evaluated...
Standardising outcome measures in chronic rhinosinusitis
This international paper, involving the foremost rhinology departments worldwide aims to provide a standardised, agreed core outcome set for chronic rhinosinusitis, which has been designed to facilitate future meta analyses of published work in systematic reviews. Stakeholders included patients, ENT...In conversation with David Stockdale
David Stockdale is stepping away from the British Tinnitus Association (BTA) after 12 years, during which time the organisation has become transformed. Prof David Baguley met with David in the spring sunshine to reflect on past, present and future of...Surgical management of sleep disordered breathing
Snoring and sleep-disordered breathing are often described as multi-level problems, and different surgical procedures are required to treat the various sites of airway narrowing and/or collapse. Jonathan Hobson gives us an eloquent run-through the various options available to the ENT...Clinical management: a personal view
When Nigel Beasley approached me to write on my experience of clinical management, I was a little surprised. I see myself as primarily a clinician, but have had increasing involvement with clinical management within my Trust. I am now in...Treatment regret in head and neck cancer – trading function for survival
Treatment for H&N cancer can be extremely tough for patients. How do we explain the likely impact as they try to make decisions? And what happens when they regret their choice? Treatment regret is a form of decision regret, involving...EU petition on patient safety
Professors Adrian Agius of Malta and John Fenton of Ireland have brought a petition on patient safety to the European Union. “Are European patients fully informed and protected when they consult a specialist in ORL?,” they ask, “And will specialists practicing outside their area of competence be legally liable for their surgical outcomes?”
Quality in Audiology: Design and Implementation of the Patient Experience
In Quality in Audiology, Dr Brian Taylor has grappled with an aspect of audiology about which I am passionate, and in doing this he has covered a lot of ground. He starts by trying to define quality – which in...
