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Find Your Quiet Place challenge

2 September 2022
SoundPrint is a crowdsourcing app that does two things. First, it enables users to measure noise levels in public places to check the venue is safe and comfortable for hearing. Second, it provides a database of over 130,000 venues to...
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Hearing in Children (Sixth Edition)

1 January 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
The first edition of Hearing in Children by Northern and Downs was published 40 years ago. For many of us, the 1974 edition of this text provided the first comprehensive definition pediatric audiology. Subsequent editions of this book, with the...
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Role of cochlear implants in the management of incapacitating tinnitus in patients with unilateral hearing loss

1 January 2017 |
This is an interesting paper on patients with unilateral hearing loss and incapacitating tinnitus. The present study was conducted on 23 patients who had a cochlear implant for unilateral hearing loss including patients with single sided deafness (SSD). Most of...

Hearing protectors and speech perception

1 May 2015 | | Hearing protection devices, learning effect, speech intelligibility, speech intelligibility impact level, speech reception threshold
This study tested 31 subjects using hearing protectors by maintaining a constant intensity level for the speech signal while varying background noise levels. The goal was to use this test to detect speech perceptual abilities under different hearing protectors –...
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Is there a role for hyperbaric treatment in sudden hearing loss?

1 January 2019 | | Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, Intratympanic injection, Sudden sensorineural hearing loss, Systemic steroid, Treatment
Sudden sensorineural hearing loss is a common presentation to ENT departments with a significant difference in management both at a local and regional level. The authors seek to clarify the role of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in combination with oral and...
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Loneliness and hearing loss treatment

1 November 2019 | | ENTA - Maxillofacial Surgery, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
It is well-known that hearing loss can lead to social isolation and consequent loneliness. This study aimed to research whether hearing loss treatment helps in overcoming loneliness long-term. Two types of treatment - hearing aids (HA) and cochlear implants (CI)...
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Follow-up of NF2 patients with ABRs, SDS and MRI

1 November 2019 | | ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Otology
Hearing loss is one of the earliest manifestations in vestibular schwannomas with 60% of the patients having high frequency loss. Several metabolic and mechanical factors influencing the cochlea and cochlear nerve have been implicated in the hearing decline noted in...

AI reshaping the landscape of head and neck cancer

4 July 2024 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
With artificial intelligence set to transform almost every aspect of life, Abishek Mahajan reviews its potential to improve head and neck cancer care. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative tool in healthcare. In the realm of oncology, AI...

Nuclear heads – and necks

1 May 2014 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
Imaging of the extra-cranial head and neck is challenging due to the anatomic complexity of the region. CT, MRI and ultrasonography (US) are amongst the most frequently utilised radiological modalities in head and neck imaging but do not always provide...

First drop-in ENT digital nasendoscopy clinic – coming May 2026

2 December 2025
The University Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM) NHS Trust will open its first ‘drop-in’ digital nasendoscopy clinic in May 2026 at the newly established Clinical Diagnostic Centre (CDC) in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. The service aims to provide rapid reassurance for patients and help detect head and neck cancers early.

BAHNO 2025

16 May 2025 | ENTA - Head & Neck
From groundbreaking research to a debate on the centralisation of head and neck services, BAHNO provided a wide ranging and clinically enriching programme for all those involved in head and neck oncology care.

Alfred Alexander: a life in ENT, but mainly music

1 July 2018 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Your own voice clinic may be filled with teachers, elderly clergy and badly trained pub singers, but it wasn’t always like this... When I was first invited to write an article about opera and ENT for this edition of ENT...