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Central auditory changes in SNHL

1 May 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Otology
Robert Harrison discusses some of the most obvious ways in which cochlear hearing loss has central consequences. It is convenient to classify hearing loss according to the most obvious site of lesion, for example, conductive, cochlear, retro-cochlear, or central hearing...

Update on EU patient safety petition

26 November 2025
The European Commission has now replied to the parliamentary question posed earlier this year, when Professors Adrian Agius of Malta and John Fenton of Ireland brought a petition on patient safety.

Establishing a hearing service and ear hospital in Nepal: the Ear Aid Nepal experience

1 March 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Following the earthquake that devastated Nepal in April 2015, the year ended on a positive note with the opening of an ENT hospital in Pokhara. Mike Smith, a UK-born ENT surgeon has been the driving force behind the conception and...

What’s new in implantable devices? New indications in cochlear implantation

1 May 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
For over 40 years, cochlear implant procedures have steadily increased. Outcomes for patients are improving as a result of modified surgical techniques, a wider portfolio of electrode arrays, advances in programming strategies, access to improved technology and a better understanding...

The Brain’s Connectome – a symphony inside our brains and how hearing loss disturbs the music

1 May 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Neurotology
Understand us; where do we begin? In this article the authors’ introduce a project that may uncover that our personalities and traits are a product of the interconnected wiring within our brain. The team discusses the Human Connectome Project and...

Intratympanic treatments for subjective idiopathic tinnitus

24 May 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Tinnitus
Direct application of medication into the ear is long established, going back as far as written records. In the modern era, greater understanding of aural anatomy revealed that drugs instilled in the middle ear could potentially diffuse into the cochlea...

Access to and uptake of cochlear implants in the UK

1 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
Assessing demands on cochlear implant (CI) services is very important for both commissioners and clinicians in anticipating clinical need and funding requirements. Commercial CI’s were introduced in the late 1980s. Initial funding was from charitable sources. The first major advance...

Cognitive spare capacity: what is it and why does it matter?

26 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Neurotology
Cognition refers to thinking and memory. So why would cognition be a useful concept for ENTs and audiologists? Audition provides our main channel of communication and when we speak to each other, we want to exchange thoughts and remember what...

Endoscopic excision of cholesteatoma

1 November 2019 | | ENTA - Otology
In this article Vikranth Visvanathan describes an exciting development on the use of endoscopic technology in complex otological practice. Transcanal endoscopic ear surgery (TEES) is rapidly evolving as a recognised method of addressing middle ear and mastoid pathology. Since its...

Bipolar microdebrider turbinoplasty

1 September 2019 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
There are a variety of ways to reduce the bulk of hypertrophied turbinates. Kimberley Lau and Showkat Mirza describe their technique which can be used in difficult cases and with minimal morbidity. As ever, one aim should be to avoid...

Nasal and aural foreign body removal: another technique for a common problem

1 March 2019 | | ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
Trying to remove foreign bodies from the ears and noses of children is something we have all struggled with at various times. Many people have their own top tips, and here Oliver McLaren and Alexander Walkden describe an ingenious way...

Parathyroidectomy

1 July 2017 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
Many ENT head and neck surgeons are now involved in thyroid surgery. This can also include the need to explore the parathyroids, either to preserve them or indeed to resect parathyroid adenomas. David Smith, a highly experienced endocrine surgeon from...