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Strengthen your communication: better conversations can reduce the risk of frailty

4 July 2024 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy
Our population is ageing and, with this, the incidence of frailty is increasing. Frailty is defined as increased vulnerability to stressors resulting in adverse outcomes. Stressors can include communication and swallowing difficulties, yet these are poorly recognised. Management of communication...

Biopsy sites with a diagnosis of pemphigusand mucous membrane pemphigoid

3 September 2024 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
This is a systemic review and met-analysis to critically evaluate optimal biopsy site for patients presenting with pemphigus or mucous membrane pemphigoid. Historically, diagnosis is made if H&E staining direct immunofluorescence and serological testing of auto-antibodies. Direct immunofluorescence has been...

Cascading communication skills to help children with autism

3 September 2024 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy
Inadequate workforce resource is an ongoing difficulty across the health professions. This study proposes a train the trainer model, with the ultimate goal of improving the communication skills of children with autism. The study describes an intervention called naturalistic developmental...

Endolymphatic duct, a bit more than what meets the eye

7 January 2025 | | ENTA - Neurotology
It is theorised that the endolymphatic duct (ED) and the endolymphatic sac (ES) system play a role in both the production and absorption of endolymph. This system could be responsible for development of endolymphatic hydrops (EH). Recently, the presence of...

Navigating the Winds of Change in the CO₂ ENT Surgical Laser Market

14 May 2024 | Research & Development, Contracts & Distributors
The CO₂ ENT surgical laser market is poised for significant changes by the end of 2024.

Leadership challenges in the world 
of AQP and accreditation – learning from experience

29 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
The words ‘choice and competition’, ‘any qualified provider (AQP)’ and ‘accreditation’ have irrevocably become part of audiology jargon in the last two years in England. Commissioners who chose ‘Adult Hearing Aid Services for age-related hearing loss’ have begun the process...

Managing sustainability

3 November 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Planetary health needs to be addressed at a societal level for any meaningful impact to occur. As the global director of sustainability for a law firm, Marion Palmer provides an overview of the responsibilities of corporate organisations for both a...

Audiology Assistant Apprenticeship – employer and apprentice perspectives

4 May 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
To celebrate National Apprenticeship week in February 2021, Keiran Joseph interviewed Caroline Jackson, Principal Audiologist at Children and Young Peoples Audiology Centre St Thomas Hospital, and Audiology Assistant Apprentice, Rachael Allan, about the value of the apprenticeship scheme in their...

The sound of music for adult cochlear implant recipients

1 September 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Dr Valerie Looi has dedicated her academic career to investigating music perception in people who have cochlear implants, and more recently, the potential of music training for improving their music perception. This article outlines current research relating to music perception...

ENT in this issue...The Future of ENT (Mar/Apr19)

8 March 2019 |
Chris CoulsonENT Surgeon; Managing Director of endoscope-i E: chris@endoscope-i.com The future, predict it at your peril’, said me – just now. But despite this (rather late) warning, we have managed to commission five articles from futurists within our midst. The...

From the editor SepOct19

1 September 2019 |
Declan Costello, MA, MBBS, FRCS(ORL-HNS), Editor, ENT & Audiology News; Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK. E: d.costello@nhs.net Welcome We live in exciting times to be working in the fields of ENT and audiology:...

ENT/AUDIOLOGY in this issue March/April 2020

27 February 2020 |
Emma Stapleton, MBChB, FRCS (ORL-HNS), Consultant Otolaryngologist, Cochlear Implant and Skull Base Surgeon, Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK. E: emmastapleton@doctors.org.uk Twitter: @otolaryngolofox Martin O’ Driscoll, Consultant Clinical Scientist; Head of Audiology and Hearing Implants, Audiology (Hearing and Balance) Centre, Manchester Royal...