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IFOS 2026 bid cities

3 November 2022 | | ENT, Audiology - Adult
As Dubai prepares to host IFOS 2023, the next IFOS congress in 2026 is already being planned. The competition to host the meeting is certain to be fierce – we hear from the organisers around the world bidding to bring...

CEORL-HNS 2024

15 June 2024 -19 June 2024 | ENT, Head and Neck, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Otology, Paediatric ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
Presidential Council Members meeting, Vienna, February 2024. John Russell, President of the Congress. As I write this update, there are less than four months to go to the 7th Congress of European ORL Head and Neck Surgery in Dublin and...

Maxillofacial and neck surgery in Iraq and Afghanistan

1 July 2014 | | ENT, Maxillofacial Surgery, Head and Neck, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Otology, Vestibular Disorders
Introduction Over the past 150 years, military personnel wounded in action had a survival rate of approximately 80% [1]. During the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, those servicemen wounded in action have a 90.4% survival rate [2]. During the...

Advances in vestibular function testing

1 November 2015 | | ENT, Vestibular Disorders
Vestibular function testing has historically been limited by difficulties in testing individual parts of the vestibular apparatus. Jas Sandhu describes new tests available to clinicians that address this problem. Advances in vestibular function testing Vestibular function testing has historically been...

Diagnosis, wearables and remote monitoring in 15 and 50 years

1 March 2019 | | ENT
In 2069 will we look forward to being enslaved by robots, becoming zombies or having our health (and ill health) diagnosed by nanotech? Ajith George muses over what the future holds for us all. The future of healthcare, not just...

Preservation rhinoplasty

1 July 2019 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus, Rhinoplasty, Maxillofacial Surgery
Hump reduction and osteotomies to close the open roof, or lowering the whole nasal dorsum? Charles East explains how preservation techniques can improve outcomes by maintaining the integral structures of the nose. What is preservation rhinoplasty? The origins of reduction...

Audiological approach to treatment of blast-induced tinnitus

1 July 2016 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Adult
Hearing loss and tinnitus resulting from blast waves in the war zone is becoming more common in our clinics. Hamid Jalilvand based in Tehran, shares his experience in audiological rehabilitation and research findings on patients in his clinics with a...

Open septorhinoplasty approach for closure of medium sized septal perforations

1 May 2015 | | Rhinology / Sinus
Septal perforations are difficult problems to treat. There are various causes described in literature such as trauma, inflammatory, cocaine abuse but most often they are due to iatrogenic cause (such as septoplasty) or due to trauma. The symptoms due to...

Nasal septal perforation repair

1 March 2018 | | Rhinology / Sinus
Nasal septal perforation repair has traditionally been a great challenge. Many surgical techniques are described, however the success rate of closure has often been poor. Experience from the use of pedicled vascularised mucosal flaps in skull base surgery has been...

Recurrent respiratory papilloma treatment in the office

1 September 2018 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
In this interesting new article, Markus Hess and Susanne Fleischer describe their technique for managing recurrent laryngeal papillomatosis in an outpatient setting using channelled endoscopes. The recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) of the larynx is a chronic HPV-associated viral disease. Clinical...

Recalcitrant chronic rhinosinusitis: What to do next?

1 July 2016 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
Whilst the majority of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) will significantly improve with treatment, we are sometimes left with a ‘hard-core’ of nasal cripples who fail to improve despite our best efforts. How can we deal with these patients? Valerie...

How will our grandchildren view COVID-19?

25 June 2020 | | ENT, COVID-19
Alan Johnson, known to our readers as the former President of ENT UK, gives us his thoughts on the COVID pandemic, looking at it through the lens of other health crises. As I write, COVID-19 is displacing almost all other...