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Reflections on educational gatherings in the COVID era

9 September 2020 | | ENTA - General
The COVID pandemic has brought disruption and uncertainty for the organisers of medical conferences. ENT and audiology have always thrived on a healthy exchange of views and the sharing of knowledge across subspecialties and across national boundaries. Ray Clarke asked...

How to identify and support adults with auditory processing disorder: a focus on low-gain devices and auditory training

4 March 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Some adults struggle with hearing in noise despite normal audiograms. Tools like the HHIA, low-gain devices and auditory training can help identify and support these cases. In this article, Angela Alexander and Fatima Abbas use a case study to discuss...

Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS) - Part 1

1 July 2016 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
In the first of a two-part series, Martyn Barnes and colleagues discuss indications for functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS), the surgical objectives and techniques, patient expectations and the risks of surgery. In part two, the authors will discuss how to...

INTEGRATE: Uniting collaborative research in ENT

1 January 2016 | | ENTA - ENT
Exposure to clinical research as a trainee is often sporadic and unstructured, despite it featuring in both the GMC’s Good Medical Practice and the ISCP’s syllabus for all surgical specialities, including otolaryngology [1,2]. The majority of trainees undertake small-scale research...

IFOS Dubai 2023

3 November 2022 |
Hussain Abdul Rahman Al Rand, Msc (Cairo), German Board (Facharzt), FRCS (Edin), President, IFOS World Congress Dubai, 2023; Assistant Under Secretary Public Health, Ministry of Health and Prevention, UAE; Vice President, IFOS; President, ARABFOS, GCC ORL Head and Neck Society,...

Understanding the NAL-NL3 Prescription System: a new era of personalised hearing aid fitting

4 September 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
The NAL-NL3 system marks a transformative step in hearing aid fitting, shifting from a one-size-fits-most prescription to a modular, patient-centred approach. Developed by the National Acoustic Laboratories, this new system integrates a core audiogram-based prescription with targeted modules to address...

Infant hearing loss impacts spoken language development: identify and intervene early

1 November 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Early hearing detection and intervention programmes have been implemented in many countries across the globe, but why are these programmes so important and how are our Canadian colleagues managing this process? The consequences of being born with a permanent hearing...

Current management of unilateral sporadic vestibular schwannoma

10 March 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Vestibular schwannoma is the commonest tumour of the cerebellopontine angle (80%) and accounts for around 8% of all intracranial tumours. The commonest primary presenting symptoms are audio vestibular. Hearing health professionals are often the first contact for patients with potential symptoms of vestibular schwannoma, with the majority then being seen and diagnosed by otorhinolaryngologists.

Endoscopic CSF leak repair using nasoseptal flap

1 May 2019 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Many of us during training or in established practice will have encountered the complication of anterior skull base CSF leak. This can be a challenging problem to deal with and in this article the authors describe their favoured approach. Cerebrospinal...

Audiological monitoring in ototoxicity - Are we doing enough?

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
In this article Ghada Al-Malky explores the dichotomy of life-saving, yet hearing loss-causing medication, and questions whether the hearing healthcare community is doing enough to prevent preventable hearing loss. Ototoxicity is the damage to hearing and / or balance functions...

New toolkit educates GPs on how to support hearing loss patients

8 February 2021
An educational toolkit developed by the Royal College of GPs (RCGP), in collaboration with hearing loss charity RNID and NHS England & Improvement, aims to support GPs to deliver care for patients with hearing loss. The RGCP toolkit, sponsored by...

Audiology in this issue...Genomics

1 July 2021 |
Priya Carling, AuD, Director and Consultant Audiologist, Kent Hearing Ltd, UK. E: priya@Kenthearing.com As a working clinical audiologist, my focus every day is predominantly diagnostics of hearing loss, closely followed by management of ear pathology and rehabilitation of hearing loss...