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Bettear: one start-up’s journey to bridging a technological gap in pursuit of auditory accessibility

2 November 2020 | | ENTA - ENT
Imagine your disappointment if you have been looking forward to seeing your favourite grunge band play live at the Dog and Duck for weeks. Your family is bored of you constantly playing their greatest hits. But when you turn up...

ENT registrar national selection: how can we advise aspiring candidates?

1 May 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
With the aim of creating fair selection into the few available training numbers, ENT was one of the first surgical specialties to move to a national selection process for selecting new registrars in England. Since 2013 the selection process has...

Migration and training: a British-Nigerian surgeon’s perspective

1 March 2018 | | ENTA - ENT
Less than 4% of doctors on the UK’s medical register describe their ethnicity as African or part African, yet there are myriad driving forces behind the migration of medical trainees from Africa to the UK and other developed countries. Ekpemi...

Shooting for Gold: ENT surgery and the Commonwealth Games

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
What are the secrets to success in your career, sports and life in general? Sharp-shooter Parag Patel hits the bullseye again. I write this article following a wave of summer sporting brilliance, from the record Great Britain 67 medal haul...

Quo vadis FESS? Future directions in functional endoscopic sinus surgery

1 May 2019 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Imaging, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Endoscopic sinus surgery is now so ubiquitous that it is hard to imagine a time when it was not part of our clinical practice. Valentin Tomazic takes a look at its early development and looks ahead to endoscopic sinus surgery...

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...

The use of THRIVE in laryngology and phonosurgery

1 May 2018 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
The team in Lewisham has been using THRIVE for our phonosurgical cases for about a year. Here, we discuss the pros, cons and potential pitfalls of setting up and using THRIVE as ventilation during anaesthesia rather than using an ML...

Changing behaviour with a human factors approach

1 January 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
The Francis Report (2013) identified multiple problems relating to the safety culture of Stafford Hospital in the period 2005 – 2009, as well as serious failings in the supervisory and regulatory systems of the NHS. Particular criticism was directed at...

The modern management of Ménière's disease

1 November 2015 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
In this article, John Phillips considers the evolution of management options for Ménière’s disease. Treatment options past and present are discussed, together with an insight into future developments regarding the role of intratympanic steroids. Ménière's disease can be the source...

The James Lind Alliance – involving patients and their health professionals jointly in setting priorities for research

1 January 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - ENT
In a world of patient-reported outcomes and patient-centred care, patient-centred research must also be considered. That is where the James Lind Alliance (JLA) comes in, as Caroline Whiting explains below. Through Priority Setting Partnerships (PSPs), it allows patients, their carers...

Teenagers with misophonia

1 January 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Misophonia can be a distressing condition for teenagers and can have devastating effects upon their home and school lives. There is little research in this area and, as Lucy Partridge explains, more is greatly needed in order to identify interventions...

Physician illness

1 September 2018 | | ENTA - ENT
Getting in the zone, recognising our personal stress limits and looking after ourselves are vital components in our efforts to stay healthy advises Abbie Lane, after almost a generation of de-stressing others. They say a rugby player like Brian O’Driscoll...