Search

You searched for "age"

1178 results found

Audiology Assistant Apprenticeship – employer and apprentice perspectives

4 May 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
To celebrate National Apprenticeship week in February 2021, Keiran Joseph interviewed Caroline Jackson, Principal Audiologist at Children and Young Peoples Audiology Centre St Thomas Hospital, and Audiology Assistant Apprentice, Rachael Allan, about the value of the apprenticeship scheme in their...

What’s new in auditory processing?

1 May 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Neurotology
Auditory processing disorder (APD) has had a controversial history, stemming mainly from lack of scientific rigor and accepted clinical definition. That situation is now changing. Driven by the huge number of people with unaddressed listening difficulties, basic discoveries in neuroscience,...

Developing medical devices for children: opportunities and challenges

1 March 2014 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Paediatrics
The development of medical devices for infants and children lags significantly behind the development of devices for adults. While in the United States the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has set up incentives for developing child age-specific pharmaceuticals, there is...

From surgeon to scholar: the remarkable life of Philip Stell

2 May 2025 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
Professor Philip Stell was an extraordinary man: following an astonishingly illustrious career in ENT, he excelled as a medieval historian. With the Philip Stell Prize due to be awarded in May, his friend Pat Bradley looks back at his remarkable...

Cochlear implant referral: how can we do better?

1 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
Considerable progress has been made over the last few years in improving access to cochlear implantation (CI) in the UK for children and adults with severe to profound deafness. But we are still not treating children early enough, and we...

Exploring teenagers’ access and use of assistive hearing technology

1 January 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Children require good signal-to-noise ratios for optimum listening and learning. The use of remote microphone technology can be of benefit, yet older children often resist using it. Jennifer Groth reviews the challenges facing older children in the use of remote...

From aaargh to zzzzz: the ABC of paediatric anaesthesia

1 November 2019 | | ENTA - ENT
Andrew McTavish is one of those special breeds who not only relishes complex anaesthesia, but also does so in paediatric patients. Dealing with this group of patients requires careful planning according to accepted practice, and here he discusses some recent...

Unexplained dizziness in elderly patients

27 February 2020 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Otology
How do we explain unexplained dizziness in elderly patients? How far should we go with investigations? And most importantly, how should we manage this challenging and expanding group of patients whose balance affects their safety? Richard Ibitoye and Diego Kaski...

Current considerations on neural development and hearing loss in young children

1 January 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Neurotology
The young child’s brain has the ability to change in response to new stimuli, resulting in learning, the foundation of adaptive and intelligent behaviour. For children with hearing loss, a reduction or lack of auditory stimuli can have a ‘lifelong...

Screening for hearing loss in primary care

14 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Hearing impairment is one physical disability that is increasing in prevalence in society in general, and in older adults in particular. Approximately 34 to 36 million Americans report suffering from some degree of hearing impairment with the number rising to...

How entrepreneurs can integrate hearables into their clinic

1 March 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Brian Taylor provides an interesting perspective on market segmentation of the hearing impaired population, and how as clinicians and entrepreneurs we need to be able to recognise the different approaches that are required to address the large percentage of the...

Effective and profitable provision of paediatric audiology care in the private sector

8 January 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Similar to other specialty areas of hearing healthcare, paediatric audiology is a potential net loss for a private-sector, for-profit, business. Given the time-intensive needs of patients with cochlear implants, tinnitus and those who are under the age of 18 years...