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Living with Usher syndrome

1 May 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Genetics, ENTA - Otology
“Usher people often still have sharp, clear central vision. It is the corner of their eye that is missing. This is why the Usher person often does not feel or look blind. In the early days they may not even...

Music and single-sided deafness: challenges and solutions

1 September 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Music is an integral part of many of our lives, providing entertainment, relaxation and a backing track to our past experiences. In this overview, Gemma Crundwell and David Baguley examine the impact of SSD on the perception of music and...

How entrepreneurs can integrate hearables into their clinic

1 March 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Brian Taylor provides an interesting perspective on market segmentation of the hearing impaired population, and how as clinicians and entrepreneurs we need to be able to recognise the different approaches that are required to address the large percentage of the...

A place for everything and everything in its place: the practicalities of randomised clinical trials

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Will this pill cure tinnitus? Bonnie Millar describes one trial that has investigated the possibility whilst describing the path of drug trials in the UK. Background In the last quarter of 2014, a clinical trial (QUIET-1; ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02315508) commenced...

Alternative listening devices: reaching the places hearing aids don’t

1 March 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
The stigma surrounding hearing aids means that many people who would benefit from wearing them are put off from doing so. Alternative listening devices could provide the solution to this. David Maidment discusses these devices, their effectiveness and the impact...

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...

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....

Fifteen years of vestibular implant research in humans

1 May 2017 | | ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology
Implants: it’s all in the balance! Prof Guyot and his team give us an update on their research in addressing bilateral vestibular deficits via an implant. Doctors are often unaware that people, even young, may lose vestibular function on both...

The evolving role of OAEs in newborn hearing screening

1 May 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
An admission on emissions from James Hall! OAEs hold an established place in the screening of infants; Professor Hall introduces how OAEs established this position and the advances keeping the test relevant to today’s infant screening battery. Introduction Truthfully, when...

A brief history of the acoustic ear trumpet and some collection favourites

3 November 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
If you think you know a thing or two about ear trumpets, I’d bet Michael Briggs knows more! In this fascinating article, he tells the history of the ear trumpet, as well as sharing some wonderful pictures from his Guiness...

Virtual educational outreach in the COVID-19 era

7 January 2021 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
Existing surgical outreach programmes to developing countries have been severely curtailed by the COVID-19 pandemic. This has impacted on opportunities for otolaryngologists from the USA and from other developed countries to contribute to education and training of otolaryngologists in developing...

Transnasal oesophagoscopy (TNO)-guided secondary tracheoesophageal puncture (TEP) under local anaesthesia

7 January 2025 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Here, the authors describe a convenient use of the transnasal oesophagoscope to create a new tracheoesophageal puncture in the outpatient clinic setting. Tracheoesophageal puncture (TEP) with voice prosthesis insertion is a reliable and effective technique for surgical voice restoration (SVR)...