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Developing an Innovation for ENT – from Idea to Market: how ‘e-i’ did it

1 March 2014 | | ENTA - General
Background endoscope-i (e-i) Ltd was incorporated into Companies House on December 3rd, 2012 following eight months of developing our first project, a simple iPhone adapter for endoscopes. Of the three founding shareholders, two are ENT surgeons and one a lecturer...

'Deafmetals' on display at the V&A

6 June 2025
Ground-breaking designs in hearing aids are on display as part of a new exhibition at the V&A Museum in London. Deafmetal®, founded by Finnish designer Jenni Ahtiainen, transforms hearing instruments into bold, beautiful jewellery – known as Deafmetals – helping wearers reclaim their identity.

Reflux – diagnostic tools and special considerations in singers

3 September 2021 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Depending on your point of view, laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) is either ubiquitous or is over-diagnosed. Are singers more prone to LPR? What are the best tests? Mark Watson and Jane Shaw tell us more. Laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR: the backflow of...

Charles Skinner Hallpike and the Hallpike Prize

1 January 2017 | | ENTA - ENT
The British Association of Audiovestibular Physicians introduced the Hallpike Prize in 2009 as an award to stimulate the pursuit of knowledge in relation to the field of audiovestibular medicine. Julian Ahmed celebrates the history of the great man the award...

Noise monitoring on a smartphone

1 March 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
“The smartphone has more computing power than was used to put the first man on the moon.” Robert Eikelboom discusses the potential of the smartphone as an effective noise monitoring device. Noise exposure and public health Excessive exposure to noise...

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...

Translating research – transforming lives: the BACO 2020 academic programme

7 January 2020 | | ENTA - General
The main attraction of any conference or event is, of course, the academic programme of lectures, workshops and education. Hisham Mehanna, BACO 2020 Academic Chair, and Paul Nankivell, Academic Vice Chair, give us an overview of what to expected in...

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...

In conversation with Shusheng Gong and Shahed Quraishi on ENT Masterclass<sup>®</sup> China

1 March 2017 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
ENT Masterclass® China was a landmark event that brought an international training resource to Beijing. Profs Shusheng Gong and Shahed Quraishi discuss the organisation of this event, the training pathway in China, and the setup of a typical ENT academic...

Audiology in this issue... Paediatric Audiology Gamechangers (NovDec18)

7 November 2018
Fifty years ago, the National Conference on Education of the Deaf followed up on the Babbidge Report of 1965, recognising the failure of oralism in deaf education. Because young, deaf children at that time did not have access to sound, they could not develop speech and language. Further, because children were identified at two years or later, early intervention was only a dream.

Measuring audiological outcomes in the paediatric setting

1 January 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
In this article Marlene Bagatto argues that a range of outcome measures and instruments need to be implemented when working with children and families. She demonstartes how these support both clinicians and families. The primary goal of early hearing detection...

Robotic head and neck surgery: current state of the art and future innovations

1 March 2016 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
Technology and innovation has provided modern head and neck surgeons with successive generations of robotic surgical systems, fibre-optic lasers, and novel tools which have ushered in a new era of minimally invasive surgery for tumours of the pharynx and larynx....