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It is all so COSI…

10 March 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Auditory Implants | adults, geriatrics, hearing aids, hearing loss, outcome measurement
Something which we have realised for a long time in the UK is the importance of the clinician in the assessment and long-term adoption of hearing aids. This common sense article outlines the need for more individualised patient pathways, thinking...
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Preoperative unaided maximum monosyllabic word recognition score as a predictor of CI outcomes

4 May 2023 | | ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Otology
This retrospective study supports early intervention and hearing rehabilitation with hearing amplification for adults. The authors included 103 patients (128 ears), who had undergone cochlear implantation over a seven-year period, in this study. All patients had been assessed for their...

The nice therapist effect: does the therapeutic relationship matter?

3 July 2023 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy | speech-language pathology, client-clinician relationship, common factors, salivary gland, therapeutic relationship, working alliance
Quality of relationships is considered a core component of all speech and language therapy work, yet there is little agreement of what constitutes a therapeutic relationship. This study describes a scoping review to map existing evidence that has investigated this...
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Dysphagia services in the emergency department

6 November 2024 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
The emergency department acts as the first port of call for many individuals with wide-ranging diagnoses and conditions, several of whom may potentially present with dysphagia. It is not a usual environment in which speech and language therapists regularly work,...

Total glossectomy and laryngectomy

2 May 2025 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
This review paper analysed studies published between January 2000 and January 2024, assessing the functional outcomes of total glossectomy combined with laryngectomy. The primary outcomes included speech ability, swallowing function and gastrostomy tube dependence. Secondary outcomes considered were disease recurrence...

The PMFA Journal - April/May 2019 issue available

14 June 2019 | Research & Development
FEATURES IN THIS ISSUE: An update on BIA-ALCL by Shadi Ghali / The importance of teamwork and leadership in the management of patients in burns centres by Emily Claire Taylor, Steven LA Jeffery / Focus: Opinions on regulation by Dalvi Humzah, Paul Charlson, Andrew Rankin / CPD certified: Hand rejuvenation with injectable fillers by Medhat Abdelmalek AND MUCH MORE...

Current considerations on neural development and hearing loss in young children

1 January 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Neurotology
The young child’s brain has the ability to change in response to new stimuli, resulting in learning, the foundation of adaptive and intelligent behaviour. For children with hearing loss, a reduction or lack of auditory stimuli can have a ‘lifelong...

Adjoin™ bone conduction system

1 May 2016 | | ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology
Patrik Westerkull (PW), Otorix AB, and Ann-Louise McDermott (A-LM), ENT Consultant at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, tell us about the Adjoin bone conduction device, a non-surgical bone-conduction option developed by Otorix. They explain how the product works, the background to the...

70 years of Akustika

2 January 2024
For the past 12 months, the Swiss Association of Hearing Aid Acoustics has been celebrating its 70th anniversary and looking back at its milestones.

Lessons learned from running a national thyroid surgery registry

1 July 2017 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
The UK Registry of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgery is now yielding the rewards of meticulous data collection and years of hard work. David Scott-Coombes discusses the advantages and the unintended consequences of their success. The British Association of Endocrine and...

Clinical WG1. Establishing a standard for tinnitus: patient assessment and characterisation

1 January 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus
Rilana Cima and Haúla Haider introduce an ambitious pan-European collaboration that seeks to establish guidelines for achieving best clinical practice for managing, assessing and treating patients with different tinnitus profiles. Tinnitus heterogeneity is the major reason for inconsistent results in...

Innovating around access to hearing services during the pandemic

9 September 2020 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Adult
COVID-19 has also presented its challenges to hearing healthcare providers and to the industry and, similarly, called for innovation and creativity. Dr Bromwich describes how these sectors are rising to the challenge. The reality of COVID-19 has been a challenging...