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Barrier and opportunities for hearing care: finding a way forward for all

4 May 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Ideal models of care for communities can include tailored ear and hearing care interventions. Barriers exist at an individual and societal level to realise the vision of hearing care for all, regardless of country or resource setting. Affordability of hearing...

Screening for hearing loss with mHealth solutions

1 March 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
With the number of people suffering from hearing loss growing all the time, the need for early detection and intervention is imperative. De Wet Swanepoel discusses two examples of mHealth possibilities for hearing screening which, as a low cost solution,...

The power of the multidisciplinary team in paediatric cochlear implant assessment

30 April 2020 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology
Marette, Kate and Justine from the Birmingham Paediatric Centre give a detailed insight into how their team works together to assess children and young people for potential cochlear implantation. Cochlear implants and the specialist MDT The multidisciplinary team in cochlear...

Barrier and opportunities for hearing care: finding a way forward for all

4 May 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Ideal models of care for communities can include tailored ear and hearing care interventions. Barriers exist at an individual and societal level to realise the vision of hearing care for all, regardless of country or resource setting. Affordability of hearing...

In conversation with Professor Claire Hopkins

3 March 2021 | | ENTA - Covid-19, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
There can be few ENT surgeons who have had such a pivotal role in the COVID pandemic as Claire Hopkins. She has been instrumental in changing the diagnostic criteria, and has been a frequent presence in the media, as Sean...

Maxillofacial and neck surgery in Iraq and Afghanistan

1 July 2014 | | ENTA - Maxillofacial Surgery, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Introduction Over the past 150 years, military personnel wounded in action had a survival rate of approximately 80% [1]. During the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, those servicemen wounded in action have a 90.4% survival rate [2]. During the...

Audiological approach to treatment of blast-induced tinnitus

1 July 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Hearing loss and tinnitus resulting from blast waves in the war zone is becoming more common in our clinics. Hamid Jalilvand based in Tehran, shares his experience in audiological rehabilitation and research findings on patients in his clinics with a...

Hidden hearing loss in humans: cochlear synaptopathy is superseded by cognitive effects when listening to speech in noise

1 March 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Elizabeth Beach presents an overview of the recent research being undertaken at the National Acoustic Laboratories on speech in noise and its relationship to cochlear synaptopathy. Our team at the National Acoustic Laboratories (NAL) has been investigating hidden hearing loss...

Practising surgery in a war zone: an interview with Dr Volodymyr Melnyk

8 December 2022 |
It is now nine months since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine commenced in late February 2022, with Putin announcing a “special military operation” to “denazify and demilitarise” Ukraine. The rest of the world, however, saw it for what it...

From the editor...MarApr19

8 March 2019 |
Declan Costello, MA, MBBS, FRCS(ORL-HNS),Editor, ENT & Audiology News; Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK Email: d.costello@nhs.net Welcome We were absolutely delighted with the turnout (over-subscribed) and feedback (overwhelmingly positive) for our Study Day...

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...

ENT in this issue...Entrepreneurs and Innovation

2 November 2020 |
Innovation has been the by-word of almost every meeting for the past five years. But what is it really? And how do we achieve it? I’ve always thought of it as a way of solving problems you have, not only...