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How can we actually be culturally responsive?

6 September 2021 | | Speech and Language Therapy
Now, more than ever, we need to take action to meet the needs of the students and patients we work with. Black Lives Matter only emphasised how little progress has been made in this area to date. The authors of...
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A therapeutic algorithm for tracheoesophageal periprosthetic leakage

5 November 2021 | | Head and Neck, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Speech and Language Therapy | management, periprosthetic leakage, postlaryngectomy rehabilitation, total laryngectomy, voice prosthesis
Tracheoesophageal voice prosthesis leakage can be intravalvular (more common) or periprosthetic (focus of this study). The authors studied the causes of periprosthetic leakage among 115 patients attending for voice prosthesis management (1374 clinic attendances) treated between December 2014 to December...

Experience on the front line

21 January 2021 | | ENT
21st January 2021 Back to basics Yesterday I went right back to where my medical career began. I grew up in Germany, bilingual. A prerequisite to studying medicine in Germany is that applicants have to spend two months working as...

Cochlear implants: recipient stories

1 September 2017 | Auditory Implants, Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric, Otology, Paediatric ENT
The most powerful evidence for the remarkable achievements made with cochlear implants over 40 years comes from the life-changing, personal stories of those who have benefited from the technology. James Rylance I first noticed a problem with hearing when I...

The Association of Otolaryngologists in Training: by trainees for trainees

1 November 2016 | | ENT
The Association of Otolaryngologists in Training (AOT) is an independent organisation, run by trainees for trainees in the UK for over 25 years. Its aims are to represent all ENT trainees in the UK; to improve and promote standards of...

Salivary duct clipping for drooling

1 November 2017 | | Head and Neck
Drooling can be a challenging problem to manage in paediatric ENT. The variety of medical and surgical treatments suggests that there is no gold standard treatment. Nicola Stobbs and Ravi Thevasagayam describe an approach to ligating the salivary ducts. Drooling...

Scientific advances in mapping syndromic hearing loss

1 May 2015 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
From more than 22000 genes that we humans have, approximately 3000 genes are associated with human communication. There are tens of syndromes which have been identified to be accompanied by hearing loss. Disorders of almost every organ of the body...

Adult hearing screening: consideration for a holistic model

14 June 2017 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Adult
Background Adult-onset hearing impairment is a highly prevalent and undertreated chronic problem that poses a significant burden of disease worldwide [1]. It is usually gradual and diagnosed and managed approximately 10 years after adults have first experienced hearing difficulties [2]....

When dinosaurs ruled the earth

2 September 2022 | | ENT
Optimism is abundant in medical research, but frequently ends up being tempered with reality. In his inimitable style, Chris Potter looks back over his career – starting with his medical school memories of Bentley-driving ENT consultants, and moving forward through...

Harnessing head and neck cancer genomics for personalised medicine

1 March 2016 | | ENT, Head and Neck
Luc Morris updates us on the future of cancer diagnosis and treatment, which lies in “personalised oncology”, where specific molecular alterations of each tumour will be identified, and matched with actionable alterations in existing therapies, ushering in the era of...

Current considerations on neural development and hearing loss in young children

1 January 2015 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Neurotology
The young child’s brain has the ability to change in response to new stimuli, resulting in learning, the foundation of adaptive and intelligent behaviour. For children with hearing loss, a reduction or lack of auditory stimuli can have a ‘lifelong...

Making audiology work during COVID-19 and beyond

26 June 2020 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Adult
‘New normal’ is another phrase that has become synonymous with this pandemic. In this article, consideration for ‘low-touch’ and ‘no touch’ audiological pathways are described for adoption as the ‘new normal’ for hearing healthcare. The COVID-19 crisis has ushered in...