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Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery – Fourth Edition book cover.

Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery – Fourth Edition

3 March 2021 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Otology
I was quite intrigued to receive this book, as the third edition was a book I had read cover to cover whilst a trainee, and was one of my core books. Initially, having a quick glance through, I could immediately...
Listening and Spoken Language Therapy for Children with Hearing Loss book cover image.

Listening and Spoken Language Therapy for Children with Hearing Loss

2 September 2022 |
I’d like to start this review with a disclaimer – I don’t deliver speech and language therapy but am interested in how speech, language and communication are developing in the children we see with hearing loss within audiology. I found...

Surgery for snoring

1 September 2017 | | Sleep-disordered breathing, snoring surgery, functional expansion pharyngoplasty, osteotomy, septoplasty, somnoplasty
The prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing is rapidly increasing. There is variable evidence for surgical treatments for snoring currently. This Belgian study was a retrospective review of 84 patients who underwent surgery for snoring between May 2011 and December 2015. A...

A drug to prevent hearing loss caused by ototoxic therapeutics

1 November 2016 |
This editorial briefly highlights the progress made in discovering a compound named ORC-13661, which shows the potential to alter the response of hair cells to ototoxic medication. In the late 1980s, inner hair cells that were lost secondary to noise...

Thyroid cancer: to dissect the neck or not?

1 January 2015 | | ENTA - Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery | Neck dissection, Paratracheal, Thyroid cancer
This is a good review of the much-debated management of the neck in thyroid cancer. It discusses oncological goals that must be achieved whilst maintaining voice, swallowing and parathyroid function. A clear description is made of the common nodal basins...

Better or barrier: what do healthcare professionals think about teletherapy?

6 September 2021 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy | children, language assessment, telehealth
Most healthcare professionals will have had to dabble in using some kind of telehealth platform over the last 18 months or so. And most of us will have had some reservations, or have colleagues who just weren’t sure about Zoom,...

Feel what you say: a framework to demonstrate the emotional response to aphasia is intertwined with the emotional toll

3 May 2024 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy
The authors start this paper by flagging a recent study demonstrating that speech and language therapists in clinical practice rarely have time to focus on emotional issues in relation to aphasia. Yet, people with aphasia describe the close relationship between...

VACANCY: Consultant ENT Surgeon

24 August 2023 | Recruitment & Personnel
Bon Secours Hospital Cork is Ireland’s largest private hospital. We currently have a unique opportunity for a Consultant ENT Surgeon to join us.

From the editor September/October 2023

4 September 2023 |
Declan Costello, MA, MBBS, FRCS(ORL-HNS),Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK. E: d.costello@nhs.netTw: @Voicedoctor_uk Who do you think you are? And – perhaps equally important – how do you come across to other people? For...

Gastric inlet patch – an under-diagnosed cause of globus

4 May 2023 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
A gastric inlet patch (GIP) is an island of heterotopic gastric mucosa found commonly in the proximal oesophagus just below the upper oesophageal sphincter. It is often underdiagnosed due to its location. Its importance and clinical relevance can be underestimated...

Cognitive effort and listening in everyday life

26 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Neurotology
Dining with family members, amongst the clinking of dishes and glasses, the sounds of conversations and laughter, the husband, a user of hearing aids, misses his wife’s request to bring another bottle of wine. After a third try, the wife,...

Building sound: from Stonehenge to a Symphony Hall

7 January 2020 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Modern architecture can use scientific techniques to shape room acoustics and create great sounding places. Professor Trevor Cox discusses our ancestors’ understanding of the importance of building techniques to enhance acoustics from Stonehenge to a Symphony Hall. Going to an...