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Join BIOHIT HealthCare at the ENT UK and YCOHNS 2025 Annual Meeting
BIOHIT HealthCare will be attending this year’s ENT UK and YCOHNS Annual Meeting on the 26th and 27th of June. These conferences will take place back-to-back at IET Birmingham, bringing together leading experts in ENT surgery and otorhinolaryngology to discuss...Discover the future of reflux diagnostics in BIOHIT HealthCare’s webinar
Join BIOHIT HealthCare on the 14th of May 2025 for a live free webinar discussing Peptest®, our innovative non-invasive diagnostic tool for reflux. The session will be delivered by Dr Andrew Woodcock, Chief Scientific Officer at RD Biomed, who will...Unlocking better reflux diagnostics with Peptest®
BIOHIT HealthCare recently hosted a fascinating webinar on Peptest, its innovative, non-invasive saliva-based test that is redefining reflux diagnosis. Led by Andrew Woodcock, Chief Scientific Officer at RD Biomed, the comprehensive session explored the science behind Peptest, from its early...
Hearing: An Introduction to Psychological and Physiological Acoustics - Seventh Edition
This text offers a good resource to learn or refresh knowledge relating to psychological and physiological acoustics. While a highly informative source for those learning about audiology such as students and new audiological professionals, as the preface suggests it could...
Oxford Case Histories in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery
Mr Kristijonas Milinis and his co-editors have collected a broad range of cases from consultants across the UK and overseas in producing this latest case-based discussion series published by Oxford University Press. The book is divided into five chapters covering...
Elevated intracranial pressure versus migraines versus sinusitis?
This narrative review discusses the challenges faced by an otolaryngologist to differentiate elevated intracranial pressure (eICP), migraines and chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). Facial pain, pressure, aural fullness, muffled hearing and tinnitus are often common symptoms described by patients with all three...
Drooling: what is it like to be unable to manage your own saliva?
Drooling in Parkinson’s is associated with less frequent and inefficient swallowing, resulting in a build-up of saliva in the mouth that then moves beyond the lips. It often causes discomfort as the skin becomes sore, and results in embarrassment. The...
Management of traumatic facial palsy
Most traumatic facial palsies resolve with conservative management. Early facial nerve decompression is indicated in acute complete traumatic facial palsies. House–Brackmann (HB) classification is used universally to classify the severity of the facial nerve injury, but few centres have availability...
A comparison between artificial and cadaveric temporal bones in terms of providing realistic setting and structural details
Increasing difficulties, costs and risks of infection have led to the use of artificial temporal bones for training in mastoid and middle ear surgery. Whether these provide a realistic learning environment (face value) and offer structural details to learn from...
Does frailty lead to changes on quantitative measures of videofluoroscopic swallowing assessment?
In recent years, studies have considered the relationship between frailty and swallowing and demonstrated that decreased skeletal muscle mass correlates with decreased swallowing function. This study investigated this relationship by using quantitative measurement of three individual components of swallowing assessed...
Which patients are suitable for surgery in recurrent head and neck cancer?
Currently, radiotherapy and chemotherapy is the most common modality used in the management of primary head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC). Unfortunately, around 50% of patients experience disease recurrence (rHNSCC). Surgery is therefore often used as a salvage treatment....
