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Musical perception and the brain: In conversation with Charles Limb

7 January 2020 |
One of the unique aspects of BACO 2020 will be a public engagement event. Charles Limb, an esteemed guest lecturer from San Francisco, will delve deep into the neurological experience of music. Who better than our very own Declan Costello...

Musical perception and the brain: In conversation with Charles Limb

7 January 2020 |
One of the unique aspects of BACO 2020 will be a public engagement event. Charles Limb, an esteemed guest lecturer from San Francisco, will delve deep into the neurological experience of music. Who better than our very own Declan Costello...

Multifrequency tympanometry

1 March 2019 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
There are many good reasons to start using multifrequency tympanometry as opposed to a traditional, single 226Hz probe tone. Here, Leigh Martin of Interacoustics discusses the uses and benefits. Tympanometry is a core test in the audiologist’s test battery. In...
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Softband vs. adhesive adapter in children with unilateral microtia and atresia

3 July 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Otology
A bone conduction device is a well-established treatment indicated for patients with unilateral microtia and canal atresia. There are a variety of nonsurgical bone conduction hearing aids (BCHAs) with different coupling methods (softbands/adhesive adapter/spectacles). There appears to be uncertainty of...
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Temporal bone fractures in children – are we doing enough?

4 September 2025 | | ENTA - Otology
This is a retrospective study which assessed clinical presentation and prognosis in 91 children under the age of 18 who developed temporal bone fractures from trauma, the commonest of which was falls from heights followed by motor vehicle accident. The...
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CRSwNP, another monoclonal antibody

1 July 2019 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus | biomarkers, dupilumab, nasal polyposis, nasal secretions, type 2 inflammation
Interleukins 4, 5 and 13 were shown to be important factors in type 2 inflammation, which characterises chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwNP). In CRSwNP non-responders and those who recur short after-surgery monoclonal antibodies might be an answer. Examples include...

Dysphagia

4 May 2023
Natalie Watson, MBBS, MA, FRCS (ORL-HNS), Consultant ENT Surgeon Specialising in Laryngology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, UK. nataliewatsonent@gmail.com@surgeonsinger Guest Section Editor The function of swallowing is one third of the triad of laryngology. Dysphagia describes difficulty swallowing...

Hunting for the zorse - hybrid learning in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

3 July 2023 | | ENTA - General
Emma Watts, a West Midlands ENT Registrar and Digital Fellow, gives a witty and concise recollection of ENT training during COVID, and predicts how hybrid learning may be here to stay. *A zorse is the offspring of a zebra stallion...

Machine learning and the future of otolaryngology

9 September 2020 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Imaging
If you are over 30 years of age, you have witnessed a technology revolution that has grossly affected how we live: computers have come from being an oddity to an everyday feature in our households and places of work; the...

Industry interaction with the ENT speciality

1 March 2015 | | ENTA - General
I was enormously grateful for the chance to articulate my personal thoughts on ‘the industry interaction with the ENT clinical community’. To set a context, the term ‘industry’ refers to medical technology manufacturers and suppliers, in addition to pharmaceutical companies....

Retrieval of an aspirated voice prosthesis in the awake laryngectomised patient

3 March 2021 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
In this article, the authors describe a simple and effective technique for extracting an aspirated voice prosthesis from within the tracheobronchial tree in the awake laryngectomised patient using the Ambu® aScopeTM 4 Broncho endoscope. Surgical voice restoration remains the dominant...

The ENT operating theatre viewed down the retrospectoscope

7 January 2021 | | ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Head & Neck
We learn much of our future by looking at our past; Douglas MacMillan provides us with a fascinating glimpse into his years as a junior doctor. The operating theatre was a somewhat alien environment in the late 1960s: theatre sisters...