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How do objective ratings of swallowing compare with patient-reported dysphagia QOL measures in the head and neck cancer population?

3 November 2022 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | Deglutition, Deglutition disorders, Head and neck cancer, M.D. Anderson Dysphagia Inventory (MDADI), Modified Barium Swallow Impairment Profile (MBSImP™©), Patient-reported outcome measures
Swallowing may be assessed by a comprehensive battery of tools including instrumental/objective assessments, clinician-rated measures and patient-reported measures. The authors of this paper use secondary analysis to explore concordance between videofluoroscopy and a patient-reported dysphagia quality of life (QOL) measure....
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COVID-19 and dysphagia in critically ill patients: a reflection of some findings

3 May 2024 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Dysphagia was a common occurrence in patients admitted to intensive care units (ITU) during the pandemic. This paper explores data from 26 ITUs over 12 months during 2020-2021. Findings from 235 patients admitted with Delta and subsequent Covid variants who...

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...

Workplace culture: observations of audiology in Northern England and Western Australia

29 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Working with a diverse workforce and coping with transition forced me to consider the importance of cultural differences in the workplace. Only by trying to understand these differences can you understand others’ behaviour and what motivates the team. I have...

In conversation with Lawrence Cleary

1 May 2019 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology
Lawrence Cleary is an art dealer and an ENT patient. He is also a recipient of an MBE for his contribution towards establishing the first multichannel cochlear implant programme in the UK. In this article he discusses with Katherine Conroy...

Should human beings sleep in the prone position?

1 January 2017 | | ENTA - ENT
Are we poised for a ‘sleep prone’ campaign to reduce nocturnal apnoeas? Prof Armin Moniri presents a fascinating account of how sleeping position can affect obstructive sleep apnoea. Inspired by sleeping position of other mammals, a new mattress and pillow...

Targeted CMV screening and hearing management of children with congenital cytomegalovirus infection

31 October 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection is a common congenital infection and is the leading infectious cause of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in children. Prof Karen Fowler discusses current research and the exciting future of screening for cCMV in newborns. Figure 1....

In conversation with Catherine Rennie

10 August 2021 | | ENTA - ENT
Miss Catherine Rennie has recently been recognised as one of the Women’s Engineering Society’s (WES) Top 50 Women in Engineering 2021. According to WES, these awards celebrate the “best, brightest and bravest women in engineering, who recognise a problem, then...

European power women in otolaryngology: a focus on Laura Viani, Ireland’s first female otolaryngologist

1 September 2019 | | ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants
Professor Laura Viani is a Consultant Otolaryngologist at Beaumont Hospital and Temple Street University Children’s Hospital and has been a member of Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland for the last 17 years. As the first female...

Identity: does it affect the training experience?

4 September 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants
Our identity can be influenced by many factors, both internal and external to ourselves. One may say that if one has not had to consider one’s own identity at any time, perhaps that in itself is a privilege? Equally, one...

Physician illness

1 September 2018 | | ENTA - General
Getting in the zone, recognising our personal stress limits and looking after ourselves are vital components in our efforts to stay healthy advises Abbie Lane, after almost a generation of de-stressing others. They say a rugby player like Brian O’Driscoll...

AUDIOLOGY - In conversation with Yury Konstantinovich Yanov

1 July 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Focussing on trauma and the military, it is fitting to include this interview with ENT Professor and Russian Army General Yury Konstantinovich Yanov. Professor Gerard O’Donoghue had the honour of putting some questions to this eminent figure in Russian ENT,...