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Strategic Practice Management: Business Considerations for Audiologists and Other Healthcare Professionals – Fourth Edition

This book is a treasure trove of knowledge and easily implemented actions for the would-be private practice owner or new manager, or a reference guide for existing private clinics. This fourth edition presents the dichotomy faced by audiologists: how to...

Programming Cochlear Implants – Third Edition

Now in its third edition, Programming Cochlear Implants provides a valuable guide for clinicians, researchers and students interested in working with cochlear implants. To my knowledge there is no other textbook on the market that attempts such a comprehensive review...

Sudden Hearing Loss: Stories of Hope, Guidance, and Support

This book combines personal narratives with information surrounding sudden hearing loss, a condition that could be frightening, isolating and confusing to those experiencing it. I feel the book would succeed in reassuring those who experience the condition by providing personable...

Video-Based Aural Rehabilitation Guide: Enhancing Communication in Children and Adults Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing – Second Edition

This second edition of Video-Based Aural Rehabilitation Guide by Linda L Daniel and Sneha V Bharadwaj is an excellent treasure trove of resources for both students and junior practitioners across audiology, speech and language therapy and deaf education. Readers are...

Large septal perforation repair

Repair of large nasal septal perforations (NSP) can be challenging due to limited availability of surrounding nasal tissue, mucosal tension and diminished vascularity. The authors of this manuscript included 38 studies involving 408 patients with large NSP, with aetiologies ranging...

For a better evaluation of neonatal hearing loss

The authors conducted a retrospective observational study on 112 neonates tested with auditory brainstem response (ABR) and auditory steady-state response (ASSR). The main aim was to compare hearing thresholds obtained by ASSR, ABR and behavioural audiometry at different frequencies and...

Platelet-rich plasma-cartilage tympanoplasty

This systematic review and meta-analysis of five studies (n=234 patients) reports the effectiveness of type I tympanoplasty with cartilage and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) compared with type I cartilage tympanoplasty alone for closure of dry tympanic membrane perforations. This is an...

Association of eustachian tube dysfunction in children undergoing adenotonsillectomy for sleep-disordered breathing

The need for this study arises from the fact that after undergoing adenotonsillectomy, some children continue to suffer from symptoms of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) which overlap with symptoms of eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD), such as cognitive and behavioural impairment, resulting...

Are you aware of communication partner training?

Increased isolation is a common sequalae of communication difficulties associated with traumatic brain injury. This is often because both the person and the people around the person are unsure how to adjust their conversation behaviours to compensate for these difficulties....

Lip sensory disturbance in osteotomy patients

Neurosensory disturbance resulting from inferior alveolar nerve injury during a sagittal split osteotomy (BSSO) is a well-recognised complication. This paper from Türkiye looked at 20 patients with neurosensory disturbance >12 months after a bimaxillary osteotomy including a BSSO surgery and...

Speech and language therapists have the skills to provide all practisable supports in compliance with Mental Capacity Act guidance

Deciding where to live can be complex. However, people with communication difficulties can find this even more difficult, and they are often completed excluded from the process. In the past, people with complex communication difficulties may have been placed in...