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Reflections on virtual teaching

7 January 2021 | | ENTA - ENT
In a situation where we cannot meet our students (whether they be medical professionals or non-medical), how do we maintain their education? Peter Samuel has been speaking to some colleagues on how they have risen to the challenge. The COVID-19...

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...

Ear, nose and throat surgery in children – where will it be in 15 and 50 years?

1 March 2019 | | ENTA - ENT
Michael Kuo, David Albert and Mike Saunders have put their collective heads together to predict the future of ENT surgery in children; will there be a rise in workload due to increasing survival of children with complex medical problems? Or...

KTP laser in the office

1 March 2016 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
KTP laser surgery offers a new way of selectively targeting microvasculature within laryngeal lesions and leaving normal surrounding tissues like epithelium and lamina propria intact – and thus preserving physiological phonation. This kind of selective photoangiolysis can be performed in...

Are imaging studies necessary in uncomplicated headaches?

1 September 2017 | | Brain tumor, Choosing wisely, Ethics, Headache, Neurosurgery, Rationing, Value
Over-imaging is one of the banes of modern medicine. One may argue that in this litigious atmosphere it is safer to get an MRI done rather than not. Despite the recommendations of the American Headache Society and the American College...

Imaging in hyperparathyroidism

1 May 2014 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
Following their caudal migration at eight weeks of development, the parathyroid glands normally locate posterolaterally to the upper pole of the thyroid gland at the level of the cricoid cartilage (superior parathyroid glands arising from the fourth branchial pouch and...

Chronic rhinosinusitis management: back to the future?

1 July 2016 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Immunology is a dim and distant medical school memory to many ENT surgeons, but the increasingly complex immunology of chronic rhinosinusitis is fascinating (honestly!). Medical management options in CRS no longer just involves saline and steroids, and we need to...

Dementia assessments for people with deafness, deafblindness or visual impairment in Scotland

4 September 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
How is the medical community doing with assessing cognitive decline in those with a sensory impairment? The ALLIANCE Scottish Sensory Hub was tasked with finding out. Background There is growing evidence of a connection between dementia and sensory loss. However,...

Universal newborn hearing screening: a global health perspective

1 May 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Intuitively, as health professionals, we know that universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) makes sense. Bolajoko Olusanya outlines how UNHS fits in with global health priorities, as well as illustrating how such programmes can help to deliver additional benefits to communities....

Combined use of a hearing aid and a cochlear implant: a case study

1 July 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Auditory Implants
When multi-channel cochlear implants (CIs) were first introduced in the 1980s, their use was restricted to people who derived no benefit from conventional amplification. Over the past three decades, however, the criteria for CIs has been relaxed considerably, and it...

What’s new in protecting hearing?

1 May 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Preventing an avoidable hearing loss before it begins would be the public health dream. In this article Kathleen Campbell takes us through one option that is showing the potential to fulfil that ambition. Kathleen explains the development of a preventative...

Experience on the front line

21 January 2021 | | ENTA - ENT
21st January 2021 Back to basics Yesterday I went right back to where my medical career began. I grew up in Germany, bilingual. A prerequisite to studying medicine in Germany is that applicants have to spend two months working as...