In this Trainee Matters we look at audiology training in two different locations from around the world, Canada and New Zealand. Marshall Chasin gives us an overview of the education system in Canada, while Amy Arrowsmith explains the history of...
By Sandro Leite, ORL Fellow, Counties Manukau Health, Auckland, NZ. Social distancing has been advised worldwide due to COVID-19, but New Zealand was considered safe enough to hold a face-to-face meeting. After months of preparations, the safety for the meeting...
Report by: Dr Inbal Meshulam- Weiss, ORL MOSS, Counties Manukau Health and Dr Nadina Thwaites, ORL MOSS in Counties Manukau Health, Auckland, New Zealand. It’s this time of year again when most of the ORL surgeons in New Zealand, along...
After months of planning a face-to-face conference in Taupo in November 2021, the annual scientific meeting of the New Zealand Society of Otolaryngology / Head and Neck Surgery (NZSOHNS) was initially delayed and then moved online because of the recent wave of Omicron. The virtual meeting took place instead on 25 and 26 February 2022.
The 2022 NZSOHNS Conference and AGM was bittersweet. Hosted in Christchurch, the home town of our most recent President Duncan (Scott) Stevenson, the society was shaken by his death just one week before the conference following a brief period of...
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Problems of speech and language in early childhood can influence a child’s emotional development, academic prowess and quality of life. This article is a consensus report from the Netherlands describing 124 clinical signs and 34 red flags of atypical speech...
With 7400 delegates coming from 97 countries, EUHA 2022 offered 26 expert lectures, a science symposium, five tutorials, and four Future Friday keynote lectures. The 118 exhibitors came from 17 countries to present their innovations at the industry exhibition. The...
This is an analysis of 88 patients treated in Switzerland between 2003 and 2012. All patients had a selective neck dissection and recurrence occurred in 25 patients. Overall and disease specific survival were 72% and 80%. They specifically looked at...
Good reasons to care about cognitive impairment and dementia in audiology If asking people what they fear most when getting to old age, it is cognitive decline that is named most often. This comes with the expectation of limitations in...