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OTC hearing aids: where are we now?

2 September 2022 | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
The ‘Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act’ of 2017 set in motion plans for a long-debated shift in the hearing care market. In 2021, the FDA released draft guidance which will allow hearing aids in the US to be sold direct to...

Open septorhinoplasty approach for closure of medium sized septal perforations

1 May 2015 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Septal perforations are difficult problems to treat. There are various causes described in literature such as trauma, inflammatory, cocaine abuse but most often they are due to iatrogenic cause (such as septoplasty) or due to trauma. The symptoms due to...

A practical approach to tinnitus

1 January 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus, ENTA - Otology
Tinnitus is the perception of sound without an external source. The estimated prevalence in adults is between 10-15% [1]. In patients with significant tinnitus, prompting them to seek medical attention, 50% will have improved to mild or no tinnitus by...

Percutaneous fibre guided laser surgery of the endolarynx

7 January 2020 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Occasionally, getting access to the larynx for an intervention can be challenging. Markus Hess and Susanne Fleischer describe a novel way to perform laser treatment in such difficult instances. Fibre guided office-based endolaryngeal laser surgery has developed to be a...

A one-stop state of the art, non-profit healthcare facility in Pune, India

1 March 2017 | | ENTA - ENT
In 2001, a non-profit healthcare facility was founded in Pune India, providing low and middle income group patients with treatment, not only at a minimum cost, but of a quality which bears the stamp of approval by the Royal College...

Secrets of the listening brain: what measuring the brain can tell us about hearing aid use and more

26 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Neurotology
In a typical audiology clinic, on any given day, a person is waiting to see an audiologist to get a hearing aid (HA). It might have taken over 10 years to get to this point of considering a hearing aid(s)...

TORS for patients with sleep-disordered breathing

1 May 2015 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Transoral robotic surgery is now a well-accepted technique in malignant tumours of the tongue base. Here the team from St Mary’s and the Royal National Throat Nose & Ear Hospital in London describe its use in carefully selected patients with...

Partial reconstruction of the pinna

1 September 2016 | | ENTA - Otology
Reconstruction of the pinna is one of the most challenging procedures in facial plastic surgery. Although there has been significant progress since one of the earliest recorded descriptions by Sushruta in 600 BC, the complex three-dimensional structure of the pinna...

What is Transnasal Humidified Rapid-Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange (THRIVE)?

1 May 2018 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
THRIVE is a physiological mechanism for oxygenating and ventilating patients who are under general anaesthesia and who have diminished or absent respiratory effort [1]. Classical ventilation requires bulk flow of gases into and out of the lungs driven by chest...

International Federation of Head and Neck Oncologic Societies (IFHNOS): its programmes and impact on head and neck cancer worldwide

1 March 2016 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
In the first article of this edition, we introduce IFHNOS, which has created a major impact on the landscape of head and neck cancer treatment and education over the past quarter of a century by offering a global platform amongst...

Harnessing head and neck cancer genomics for personalised medicine

1 March 2016 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
Luc Morris updates us on the future of cancer diagnosis and treatment, which lies in “personalised oncology”, where specific molecular alterations of each tumour will be identified, and matched with actionable alterations in existing therapies, ushering in the era of...

Achieving consensus on candidacy for cochlear implantation

1 September 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
The British Cochlear Implant Group’s candidacy working group recently ran a national exercise, working towards a consensus on candidacy for cochlear implantation in the UK. Padraig Kitterick and Debi Vickers were instrumental in this exercise, and in the article below,...