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Inter-professional teamwork and hearing care for older adults with cognitive loss

27 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
There is growing awareness that hearing loss is linked to dementia [1]. The average first-time hearing aid user is about 70 years old. By this age, approximately 1 in 2 people have hearing loss and 1 in 7 have cognitive...

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...

Hidden hearing loss in humans

1 March 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Awareness of cochlear synaptopathy (‘hidden hearing loss’) is growing. Chris Plack gives us an introduction to the condition, defining it and reviewing recent research in humans and animals with respect to noise exposure. The main cause of hearing loss is...

Transnasal oesophagoscopy (TNO) and balloon dilatation under a local anaesthesia

1 March 2017 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Many of us are becoming more and more familiar with the use of transnasal oesophagoscopy. It has a number of well-described uses in the outpatient setting and is well tolerated by our patients. Yakubu Karagama describes taking this technique a...
Otology & Neurotology journal cover image.

CT guided cochlear implant programming improves performance

1 July 2016 |
There is currently no national (UK) consensus on imaging patients for cochlear implantation. This paper may change that. It has shown increased hearing and quality of life in paediatric cochlear implant (CI) users when the programming has been assisted by...
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CATE in people with dementia

7 January 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult | aged care home, Cortical automatic threshold estimation, auditory evoked potential, dementia, hearing evaluation, hearing impairment, pure-tone audiometry
Behavioural hearing tests may be difficult to perform for people with dementia. The aim of this study was to investigate if the cortical automatic threshold estimation (CATE) may be used as an alternative to the pure tone audiometry test. Six...

Armageddon and surgical outcomes

1 January 2015 | | ENTA - ENT
In the excitement of the festive season I am sure many of you will have omitted to commemorate the 60th anniversary of a highly significant world event. According to a small apocalyptic cult led by a Chicago housewife named Dorothy...

Collaborating with patients on research priorities in hyperacusis: the James Lind Alliance project

1 January 2019 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus
An innovative and inclusive approach to the identification and prioritisation of research questions is to place the views of patients at the heart of the process, and in partnership with clinicians. The application of this to hyperacusis is described by...

Young ESPO – looking back and looking ahead

3 June 2023
In 2018, after the virtual ESPO Marseille meeting, a new committee of ESPO Juniors was established. Last year, the name was changed to Young ESPO.

Sit back, relax and enjoy the flight! & Arrivals

3 May 2024 | | ENTA - General
This series of stories is dedicated to those of you with whom some of these moments were shared (or endured) and, above all, to my amazing and long-suffering husband, David Howard. Most of you know him as an exceptional head...

Frontiers 2025

13 November 2025 -15 November 2025 | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Tinnitus
By Harvey Coates, Clinical Professor University of Western AustraliaThe 14th Frontiers in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery was held in Hobart, Tasmania and sponsored by the Passe and Williams Foundation (formerly known the Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation)....

Spotlight on Africa: paediatric ENT focus

1 May 2019 | | ENTA - Paediatrics
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) carries 24% of the global disease burden but employs only 3% of the world’s health workers [1]. Unique workforce considerations exist in SSA including a paucity of skilled health professionals and fluctuant political climates [1,2]. Shazia Peer...