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Oto Rhino Laryngology and Head & Neck journal cover image with Editor's Choice stamp.

ChatGPT Quiz skills need refinement!

4 September 2023 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, Neurotology, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus | AI, Artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, Multiple-choice, Otolaryngology quiz, Single-choice
On 30 November 2022, ChatGPT was launched, free for all to use online. For those who are not aware, ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot which utilises the web to create detailed and natural human-like...
American Journal of Rhinology & Allergy cover image.

Balloon dilatation of the eustachian tube - largely very safe but not entirely without risk

4 March 2024 | | Maxillofacial Surgery, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus | MAUDE database, adverse event, balloon dilation, Eustachian Tube Dysfunction, risk profile
Consent is a fundamental part of our daily working lives. This is something as simple as consent to examine a patient, consent to undertake a procedure as minor as taking blood, through to consent for a major operation. Whatever the...
Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology journal cover image.

Poking the bear: learning to drain quinsy on a mannequin head

3 September 2024 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Simulation in medicine has gained significant traction in both undergraduate and postgraduate training over the last couple of decades or so – the benefits to all involved are clear. The airline industry models for human factors and crew resource management...

The Dilemma of Beethoven’s Deafness

2 March 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Otology
Beethoven was one of the world’s greatest musicians, and his deafness is well known. Many details of his medical conditions are known, and various theories of his hearing loss have been proposed. Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770 in...
The Laryngoscope journal cover image.

In the West of Scotland, what factors impact and what are the survival trends for laryngeal cancer?

4 March 2025 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
The TV and radio presenter Jamie Theakston recently returned to his radio show to announce he is cancer free. He had been off air for a year after having surgery to treat early-stage laryngeal cancer. His diagnosis was made when...

ENT Training: a Singapore perspective

1 January 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
I recently had the opportunity to participate in a week’s observation with Associate Prof Thomas Loh, a head and neck surgeon with a special interest in nasopharyngeal carcinoma at the National University Hospital of Singapore (NUHS). What was striking from...

Cambodian otology service – a fellowship with a difference

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
Cambodia is a country of 15 million people, still recovering from a chequered past. In the 1970s, under the Khmer Rouge, most of the medical profession, together with the rest of the educated population, was executed – the fortunate few...

Fifth Sense wins major funding from the National Lottery Community Fund

13 November 2019
Fifth Sense, the registered UK charity for those affected by smell and taste disorders, is delighted to announce that the organisation has been granted an award of £238,815 by the National Lottery Community Fund. The award will deliver the outcomes...

In search of courage; transition 
into Army

1 July 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
In search of courage. Well, that is how it all started. I was fairly advanced in surgical training not to mention age, when I decided to join the Territorial Army (TA). My peers, on hearing this couldn’t decide whether I...

Leading and managing audiology service through a social enterprise model

29 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
As these things sometimes happen, our first conversations about Social Enterprise happened pretty much by chance and in our case were a by-product of discussions about a new department having outgrown the current one. The National Health Service (NHS) Audiology...

Leadership reflections

1 September 2019 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
For the past year, Lisa Vaughan Christensen has been the President of the American Academy of Audiology. In this article, she shares the journey that led her to this position and offers some brilliant advice to anyone interested in leadership....

Use of Elasticated Hooks in Open Rhinoplasty

1 March 2014 | | ENTA - Rhinoplasty
Introduction Good exposure is an essential requisite in open rhinoplasty and often requires appropriate assistance to aid surgery. Frequently, surgeons lack adequate assistance in theatre and often have to depend on the scrub nurse for retraction. A self-retaining retractor is...