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BAAP National Audit Meeting

20 June 2025
Sabarinath Vijayakumar, ST5 Registrar in Audiovestibular medicine, Royal Derby Hospital. The British Association of Audiovestibular Physicians (BAAP) hosted its 2025 National Audit Meeting online in June. This meeting brought together members, consultants and trainees in audiovestibular medicine from across the...
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Inpatient or outpatient thyroidectomy?

2 September 2022 | | ENTA - Head & Neck | Hemithyroidectomy, Outpatient, Bayesian meta-analysis, Systematic review, Hematoma, Thyroidectomy
This systematic review and meta-analysis discusses the safety of hemithyroidectomy in an outpatient vis-à-vis an inpatient setting. Thyroidectomy has traditionally been performed as an inpatient procedure. Currently, an increasing number of surgeons are performing thyroidectomy in outpatient settings. The main...
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Day case orthognathic surgery

3 November 2023 | | ENTA - Maxillofacial Surgery
This paper analyses whether patient safety is maintained when orthognathic surgery is performed as an outpatient. This Swedish paper reviewed 165 patients, 107 of whom were to have what was termed outpatient care, and of which 101 (94%) were able...

In conversation with Prof Metin Önerci

30 April 2020 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Prof Valerie Lund caught up with friend and colleague, Prof Dr Metin Önerci, to discuss his various positions in rhinology, the FOAM programme with which he is involved, and rhinology in Turkey and the Balkan and the Central Asian region....

Retrieval of an aspirated voice prosthesis in the awake laryngectomised patient

3 March 2021 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
In this article, the authors describe a simple and effective technique for extracting an aspirated voice prosthesis from within the tracheobronchial tree in the awake laryngectomised patient using the Ambu® aScopeTM 4 Broncho endoscope. Surgical voice restoration remains the dominant...

Robotics in rhinology – fantasy or the future?

3 September 2024 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Robotic surgery is advancing, but its use in rhinology lags due to spatial constraints and high costs. Innovations in flexible robots may bridge this gap in the future. We are in a new era, one of artificial intelligence and robotics....

Personal perspective of a hearing aid user: In conversation with Alistair Cruickshank

5 January 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants
Alistair Cruickshank explains how he has embraced technological changes to improve his day-to-day listening experiences as a hearing aid user. He explains the importance of experimenting and trying out different approaches and how much he values working closely with his...

Neuromod establishes US subsidiary and appoints Eric Timm as US Chief Executive Officer

19 October 2021 | Company Profiles, Recruitment & Personnel
Neuromod Devices Ltd, the Irish medical device company which specialises in neuromodulation technologies, has announced the establishment of Neuromod USA Inc., a subsidiary headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois.

Audiological monitoring in ototoxicity - Are we doing enough?

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
In this article Ghada Al-Malky explores the dichotomy of life-saving, yet hearing loss-causing medication, and questions whether the hearing healthcare community is doing enough to prevent preventable hearing loss. Ototoxicity is the damage to hearing and / or balance functions...

Neuroimaging WG3. Neuroimaging as a window on the heterogeneity of tinnitus

1 January 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus
Pim van Dijk and Sven Vanneste describe the hope that brain imaging techniques used for research will provide a better understanding of the heterogeneity of tinnitus through large-scale analysis. Their project will create a procedure whereby researchers can submit their...

Hearing in middle-age: hearing impairment, tinnitus and hearing aid use in UK adults

1 March 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus
Hearing loss has a well-documented adverse impact on emotional, social and physical well-being. In this article, Dr Piers Dawes from the University of Manchester gives an insight into his team’s recent work analysing the very large UK Biobank data set,...

Surgeons and swearing

1 July 2017 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
We will all know colleagues who have raised the act of swearing to an art form; just as Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It could cut a workmate in half with a well-placed swear word, surgeons can be equally...