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Medicine in the Mountains
This is an easy-to-read paperback with interesting accompanying photographs. Its focus is one of the UK-based teams who have done considerable healthcare work in Nepal. Written by David Hawker, a British anaesthetist, we see the story unfold through his eyes....
Head, Neck and Thyroid Surgery: An introduction and practical guide
This is an outstanding practical guide to head, neck, thyroid and parathyroid surgery for the trainee starting in the head and neck rotations but also preparing for board college exams such as the MRCS, FRCS or the EBEORL. The authors...
Complex Cochlear Implant Cases – Management and Troubleshooting
When working with cochlear implant (CI) recipients who are not responding as well as expected or their case incorporates new challenges for the audiologist, the common response is a quick panic, closely followed by a question: what do we do...
Manual Therapy for Voice and Swallowing
This 300-page practical book on Manual Therapy for Voice and Swallowing is written by a single author, Walt Fritz, who is a US-based manual therapist. The first 150 pages include an overly detailed introduction, including his personal view and journey...
Big Data In Otolaryngology
The future is now and, in my opinion, this consists of artificial intelligence, robotics, and data. Why is data important? This is a rhetorical question as you will have guessed; however, it can help improve individual and collective care, speeding...
Alive - an alternative anatomy
Gabriel Weston studied English as a first degree, and then trained in medicine. She entered an ENT registrar training programme and was then offered a book deal, so continued her clinical practice whilst writing. She subsequently appeared extensively on BBC...
To monitor the nerves or not?
Whilst intraoperative nerve monitoring has become the standard of care for mastoid and parotid surgery, its benefit in thyroid surgery remains unclear. In the UK NICE was agnostic on the subject in 2008, stating that it was potentially helpful and...
Radiology and paediatric neck lumps
This is a comprehensive article examining the modalities available for children presenting with suspected congenital neck lumps. Each modality is explained in turn, with pros and cons highlighted, but also in the context of the emergency patient and the elective....
Removing nasal polyps assists with sleep
This small Scandinavian study looked at sleep quality in patients with CRS and nasal polyposis and whether this is improved by surgery, rated by questionnaires. A cohort of 42 Swedish patients in 2013-14 filled out four different validated sleep and...
Rates of tonsillitis increase as rates of tonsillectomy reduce
This retrospective study sought to determine the effect of reduced rates of tonsillectomy in England and Wales, over a 13-year period, on rate of hospital admissions for the complications of acute tonsil infection (acute tonsillitis and quinsy), and hospital bed-day...
Extrapolating lessons from vestibular schwannoma management
This paper presents a delightfully simple and sensible hypothesis for the management of benign schwannomas in the head and neck region. They have taken the approach used for the management of vestibular schwannomas and used the same principles to assess...
