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Management of single-sided deafness in adults: a bone conduction solution

3 November 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Auditory Implants
Single-sided deafness (SSD) presents a limited number of methods for management, and not all of them meet the patient’s expectations. The aim of this article is to set out the available bone-conduction treatment methods for managing single‑sided deafness in adults....

Embracing deafness and the silent world

4 September 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Brian Kokoruwe shares his journey from growing up during civil war in Nigeria to becoming Director of Deaf UK Athletics and a published author. While I am active in the Deaf BSL community, involved in Deaf sports and the Government...

How to deliver bad news better

4 March 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Delivering bad news well takes experience and time. The Ida team recommend the SPIKES protocol; providing structure for relaying bad news, giving confidence to those delivering it, and leaving recipients feeling cared for and informed. It’s among the most distressing...

Annelies Kusters: exploring deaf communities globally

3 May 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Pioneering deaf scholar, Annelies Kusters, shares insights from her global research journey spanning two decades in deaf communities worldwide. You’ve travelled the world extensively through your work – what’s surprised you most about the different communities that you’ve studied? My...

Ida Institute’s legacy and the future of person-centred care

4 March 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Professor Kris English reflects on the IDA Institute’s closure, celebrating its legacy of advancing patient-centred care and reshaping audiological counselling worldwide. In September 2008, the Ida Institute’s Director, Lise Lotte Bundesen, and her team held its inaugural ‘Defining Hearing Seminar’...

Protheses for patients with severe bilateral vestibular loss

4 March 2025 | | ENTA - Vestibular Disorders, ENTA - Neurotology
In February 2003, I met a patient with severe bilateral vestibular loss due to gentamicin toxicity, and I felt disheartened. Despite the fantastic diagnostic vestibular lab we had at Maastricht University Hospital, what could I truly offer her? She had...

Labour rights violations in the manufacture of healthcare goods

1 March 2015 | | ENTA - ENT
Every year trillions of dollars are spent on medical supplies globally. The operating theatre is a significant proportion of this spend, typically accounting for a third of a hospital’s supply costs. When making purchasing decisions consideration is given to value...

The delivery of ENT services in Mongolia: what are its obstacles?

1 January 2019 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Globally, the burden of ENT disease is great. Disabling hearing loss (DHL) for example, is reported to affect half a billion people worldwide. The majority of afflicted individuals live in lower and middle-income countries (LMIC) [1]. This article, a collaboration...

In conversation with Robin Youngs

1 November 2019 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
Members of ENT UK (The British Association of Otolaryngologists and Head and Neck Surgeons) have a long tradition of humanitarian work in countries in Africa and Asia (see article with Professor Davis Howard in previous issue for example). The ENT...

Advances in ear and hearing telehealth

4 May 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Telehealth in ear (or tele-otology/tele-audiology) and hearing care has steadily increased as an area of both research and clinical interest over the past 15 years [1]. Driven by rapid advances in connected technologies and wide-ranging potential use cases, telehealth had...

AHNS Endocrine Section Developing World Female Travel Grant and its 2021 recipient Dr Oghogho Eloghosa Braimah

3 September 2021 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of transnational cooperation. There is a need to improve the education of all healthcare professionals on a global setting.This is especially so, as it is universally acknowledged that low- and middle- income countries...

Developing ENT and audiology services in Southern Africa

3 November 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - ENT
Much has been said of the paucity of ENT and its related services in low- and middle-income countries. This article from a retired paediatric otolaryngologist discusses the progress that has been made locally to redress these health inequalities. He has...