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Paediatric auditory brainstem implant: overview and outcomes

3 November 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Auditory Implants
Auditory brainstem implants were first used in adults with NF2. They have more recently become a technology option for children but what is the evidence to support this choice? This article discusses the evidence so far. Auditory brainstem implant is...

The ups and downs of overseas research – the inner ear at altitude

7 January 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders, ENTA - Otology
Conducting research at extreme altitude presents unique challenges. This study of the inner ear at 5350m navigates setbacks in a quest for scientific discovery. Having completed a diploma in mountain medicine in my foundation years, I decided to undertake a...

The Hallpike Prize 2024

28 November 2024
The Hallpike prize is awarded annually for the best project of the past 24 month period (research, audit or review of subject) in the area of audiovestibular medicine. The project can be unpublished, published or be in form of a presentation or poster, but the prize committee must be able to assess its quality from the available information provided within the application.

Associated findings in MRI used for detecting acoustic neuroma

1 May 2017 | | Audiovestibular Symptoms, Incidental Findings, Internal Auditory Meatus, MRI, Vestibular Schwannoma
Presently, gadolinium enhanced magnetic resonance imaging is the ‘gold standard’ for investigating acoustic neuroma. There are often ‘incidental’ findings that may or may not be significant. In this study of 109 scans, the authors noted an uptake of 0.9% for...

Sniffing out the evidence – COVID-19 and loss of sense of smell and taste

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Covid-19
Louis Pasteur once observed: “In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.” Professor Hopkins was certainly prepared when a few anecdotes of smell problems started to accumulate early in the pandemic’s course. Post-viral olfactory loss is nothing...

Endoscopic ear surgery in children

1 May 2016 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
The benefits of endoscopes in otologic surgery, which have become increasingly widely appreciated in recent years, are very well suited to the management of paediatric middle ear disease. Although one might imagine that the smaller ear canal of a child...

Active middle ear implants and bone-anchored hearing systems

27 February 2020 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
The implantable hearing device market has grown significantly over recent years. But as conventional hearing aids improve and cochlear implant candidacy widens, what is the role for active middle ear implants and bone anchored hearing systems, and how should we...

Auditory brainstem implant results in adults and children

5 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
Background The auditory brainstem implant (ABI) has been developed from cochlear implant (CI) technology and is indicated for people who have anatomical abnormalities of the cochlea or dysfunction of the auditory nerve. The majority of people who have received an...

The ear-brain connection in cochlear implant users: learning to listen again

26 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Neurotology
While the cochlear implant (CI) has been a tremendous success in restoring hearing to deaf individuals, the implantation outcome still varies across CI users [1]. Some demographic factors, such as duration of deafness, and peripheral factors, such as electrode placement,...

A psychophysical perspective on single-sided deafness and its treatment by cochlear implants

1 September 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Auditory Implants
Bob Carlyon gives us a psychophysical perspective on the hearing benefits that can and cannot be achieved for patients with single-sided deafness with a cochlear implant, and discusses some of the challenges in maximising the effectiveness of the treatment. He...

Audiological approach to treatment of blast-induced tinnitus

1 July 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Hearing loss and tinnitus resulting from blast waves in the war zone is becoming more common in our clinics. Hamid Jalilvand based in Tehran, shares his experience in audiological rehabilitation and research findings on patients in his clinics with a...

Use of automated audiometry for faster patient access to audiology services?

30 April 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Manual audiometry has long been the gold standard for establishing hearing thresholds. In recent years, a number of automated audiometry applications have reached the market. In this article, a team from Ireland have put a version of automated audiometry to...