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Hearing aid standards and test systems

Hearing aids are the most used management / rehabilitation option for people with hearing loss. Generally, hearing instrument manufacturers perform the hearing aid performance measurements and provide its specification in terms of functionality. However, it is also common for government...

Paediatric salivary gland tumours

This is a review article of a rare group of neoplasms that frequently present as painless preauricular mass in older children. There is a wide differential including first branchial arch abnormalities, inflammatory and granulomatous processes. Those masses that are painless,...

Developing outcome measures for research

There are challenges in developing outcomes measures; Professor Hall presents five top pointers for making rapid progress in developing outcome measures for research purposes. Anyone who has worked clinically with hearing loss will appreciate that every patient’s experience is personal....

REARRANGED: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer And Life Transposed

Rearranged is a wonderfully positive memoir telling of Kathleen Watt’s ordeal through maxillary osteosarcoma. As an early career opera singer in the New York Metropolitan Opera’s chorus, her dreams are derailed and life transformed when this most rare diagnosis hits....

Emma Stapleton honoured in Edinburgh

Otologist Emma Stapleton is among six new members appointed to the College Council of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd).

How to feel happier: kindness, gratitude and self-care

The number of students experiencing mental health difficulties has risen dramatically, sometimes attributed to the widespread intrusion of social media in our lives, increasing social pressures on performance, and recent other societal factors. This article describes a study undertaken with...

Skull bone reconstruction using 3D-printed titanium implant

ENT surgeons’ role in advanced skull base resection and reconstruction continues to grow; this article explores how 3D printing aids planning and repair of complex defects. The integrity of the craniofacial skeleton is essential for both functional and aesthetic reasons....

Enhancing care for adults with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder

It’s time to improve and personalise care for adults with ANSD. Knowing the lesion site could open up treatment opportunities like cochlear implants or new cell therapies. Auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) comprises a group of hearing disorders characterised by...

Cochlear implant referral: how can we do better?

Considerable progress has been made over the last few years in improving access to cochlear implantation (CI) in the UK for children and adults with severe to profound deafness. But we are still not treating children early enough, and we...

Assessing extended high-frequency hearing

The frequency range of human hearing spans 20 Hz to 20 kHz. In the UK, standard audiometry usually assesses 0.25–8 kHz; the extended high frequencies (EHFs) are those above 8 kHz. The importance of assessing EHF hearing has been increasingly...

ENT UK Spring Meeting & YCOHNS Event

Young Consultants in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery (YCOHNS) Annual MeetingBehrad Barmayehvar, ENT ST6 registrar, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, West Midlands Deanery, UKAttending my first YCOHNS meeting as a senior registrar preparing for fellowship and consultant applications, I found it...

Innovating around access to hearing services during the pandemic

COVID-19 has also presented its challenges to hearing healthcare providers and to the industry and, similarly, called for innovation and creativity. Dr Bromwich describes how these sectors are rising to the challenge. The reality of COVID-19 has been a challenging...