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Loss of smell in the age of COVID-19

4 May 2021 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Loss of smell (LOS) is a debilitating symptom with increasing interest for the medical community due to its high prevalence in COVID-19. In the present paper, a team of 15 experts provide recommendations for the investigation and management of patients...

Early recognition aiding better prognosis?

4 September 2025 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
As we are all aware, acute invasive fungal rhinosinusitis (AIFR) is a life-threatening disease which typically affects immunocompromised patients. It is diagnosed via typical signs, symptoms and presentation but gold standard is by biopsy of tissues demonstrating infiltration fungal hyphae....

ENT in this issue...Wellbeing

3 May 2022 |
Declan Costello, MA, MBBS, FRCS(ORL-HNS), Editor, ENT & Audiology News; Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK. E: d.costello@nhs.net The last two years have taken an enormous toll on people’s sense of wellbeing and happiness....

QuietStar completes refurbishment project for the Dewsbury & District Hospital

9 July 2024 | Company Profiles, Contracts & Distributors
Working together with the Estates Department of The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, QuietStar was recently appointed to refurbish, update and recommission two existing, but non-compliant modular audiology test rooms for the Outpatients Audiology Department with Dewsbury & District Hospital.

EEG as a measure of neuroplasticity in children

6 January 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Measuring changes in neural activity can teach us a lot about hearing loss and the effect of gained functional hearing. In this article, the authors describe how electroencephalography (EEG) is being used to effectively measure such changes in children with...

The effects of polypharmacy in the elderly

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Another pill to cure the ill? Alec Lapira discusses the warning signs of polypharmacy in the elderly population. Polypharmacy in the elderly Polypharmacy – defined as the use of five or more medications – occurs in 20–37% of older people...

Call to improve audiology services in Scotland

5 September 2023
A review of audiology services in Scotland has found there are “many areas ripe for improvement,” identifying weaknesses in leadership, planning, training and quality. Introducing a report that makes more than 50 recommendations, Professor Jacqueline Taylor MBE, the independent chair...

Evidence-based practice: management of sudden sensorineural hearing loss

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
What is the current evidence for medical management of sudden sensorineural hearing loss? Jessica Choong and Stephen O’Leary present a review of the current evidence of treatments options. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) causes significant distress and, in many cases,...

Aspirin desensitisation for aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD)

2 March 2022 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
In this article, the authors describe the importance of identifying aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis refractory to standard medical treatment. This can then open the door to considering aspirin desensitisation treatment which, in their hands, has proven...

The common frontal sinusotomy (Lothrop) and chronic rhinosinusitis

1 July 2016 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
As our understanding of the pathophysiology of CRS evolves, so do our treatment strategies. It is accepted that in many cases, the main role of surgery is to allow better penetration of topical therapies to the sinus cavities. What, then,...

Random-pattern skin flaps: part 1 – advancement flaps

3 September 2021 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
In the first of a short series covering random pattern skin flaps and their use in clinical practice (see Part 2 here, Part 3 here and Part 4 here), Christopher Thompson and Miles Bannister describe in some detail their techniques...

Mastoid fistula closure

3 September 2024 | | ENTA - Otology
This article describes a clear and useful technique for the repair of a troublesome mastoid fistula. The clear instructions make this easy to apply in daily practice. Mastoid fistula is a rare condition whereby an abnormal connection develops between a...