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Mindfulness and tinnitus: a path to peace in the present

3 September 2024 | | ENTA - Tinnitus
How does training the mind to be present in the here and now help patients with troublesome tinnitus? James Jackson discusses mindfulness and its place in tinnitus management. Although definitions can be more complex, tinnitus is the perception of sound...

BAA Annual Congress 2023

2 November 2023 -3 November 2023 | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders, ENTA - Tinnitus
Lauren Mumford, Paediatric Audiologist, Leicestershire Partnership Trust, UK. Coventry was a great location for the annual British Academy of Audiology conference, with audiology professionals travelling from near and far... even jet-setting speakers from Australia. We were warmly welcomed by President...

The Veterans Hearing Fund

1 July 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Dawn Bramham introduces us to the newly launched Veterans Hearing Fund (VHF). This organisation aims to improve the lives of military personnel with hearing loss by providing access to technologies, services and bespoke rehabilitation that are not routinely available via...

Percutaneous tracheostomy in anticoagulated patients

27 February 2020 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Head & Neck | Dilatation percutaneous tracheotomy, anticoagulant therapy, bleeding complications, intensive care unit
This Belgian study looked at the risks and complications of bedside percutaneous tracheostomy in patients who received anticoagulant therapy. The 231 tracheostomies included in the study were performed over an eight-year period by two otolaryngologists using bronchoscopic guidance. The mean...

Adult hearing screening: consideration for a holistic model

14 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Background Adult-onset hearing impairment is a highly prevalent and undertreated chronic problem that poses a significant burden of disease worldwide [1]. It is usually gradual and diagnosed and managed approximately 10 years after adults have first experienced hearing difficulties [2]....

Inter-professional teamwork and hearing care for older adults with cognitive loss

27 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
There is growing awareness that hearing loss is linked to dementia [1]. The average first-time hearing aid user is about 70 years old. By this age, approximately 1 in 2 people have hearing loss and 1 in 7 have cognitive...

From Hippocrates to COVID-19: sniffing out the disease

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - ENT
The ancient Greek physician, Hippocrates, used the ‘art of smell’ to diagnose diseases around 400BC. He also formulated miasmatic theory, which posited that disease is caused by bad smells. Bad air was strongly believed by many physicians to be the...

Protheses for patients with severe bilateral vestibular loss

4 March 2025 | | ENTA - Vestibular Disorders, ENTA - Neurotology
In February 2003, I met a patient with severe bilateral vestibular loss due to gentamicin toxicity, and I felt disheartened. Despite the fantastic diagnostic vestibular lab we had at Maastricht University Hospital, what could I truly offer her? She had...

Random-pattern skin flaps: part 4 - transposition flaps

2 September 2022 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
In the final part of our series on local skin flaps (see Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) in ENT, the authors describe the usefulness of the transposition-type flap and highlight some examples. Rotational advancement flap Useful for defects...

Charitable hearing care in Pakistan: establishing the IMRA Cochlear Implant Programme and Middle Ear Project

14 February 2020 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
IMRA, the International Medical Relief Agency, is a registered charity providing volunteer-delivered cochlear implant and major ear surgery to children and adults in Pakistan. Established in 2001 by UK-based ENT surgeons led by Mr Haroon Khan, its primary aim is...

Will it ever happen?

1 November 2014 |
Audiology is a rapidly evolving field, with many exciting developments on the horizon. David Baguley identified some topics of interest, and asked some international experts ‘will it ever happen?’ Gene therapy for deafness After years of development, gene therapy for...

Widex UK & Ireland partner with Anglia Ruskin University

29 August 2023 | Company Profiles, Contracts & Distributors
Widex UK & Ireland and Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) announced in July, an exciting project designed to create added value for independent hearing care professionals and future audiology graduates within the UK & Ireland.