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CI outcome measures and different languages

7 January 2021 | | Auditory Implants, Paediatric ENT | Categories of auditory performance (CAP), Evaluation, Hearing impairment, Reliability, Speech intelligibility of rating (SIR), Validity
Outcome measures for hearing rehabilitation strategies in children are the subject of endless debate. The underlying problem with measuring outcomes in this population is delineating the extent to which development (which is in itself variable) and hearing ability (usually the...
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Role of imaging in unilateral sensorineural hearing loss

7 January 2021 | | Otology | Cochlear Nerve, Deafness, Ear, Inner, Hearing Loss, Unilateral
Recent understanding of the significance of unilateral hearing loss in children for language development calls for extensive investigations and early rehabilitation. This retrospective study of 90 children with unilateral hearing loss with high resolution CT scans and MRI revealed that...

How long is too long? Waiting times for speech and language therapy

2 November 2020 | | Speech and Language Therapy | consumer, government, qualitative research, retention, service delivery, speech-language pathology, waiting list, workforce issues
Waiting lists are a reality of clinical practice, and many health and social care professionals become used to having to cope with this. The authors of this paper addressed this issue by examining written submissions to the 2014 Senate Inquiry...

Do parents sleep better after paediatric adenotonsillectomy?

27 February 2020 | | Obstructive sleep apnea, adenotonsillectomy, otolaryngology, pediatric, sleep, sleep disordered breathing
Paediatric adenotonsillectomy for sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is amongst the commonest surgical procedures performed in ENT. In the outpatient clinic, parents routinely express their concern about their child’s breathing but the impact of sleep disordered breathing on the parent is...
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Paediatric versus adult pituitary adenomas

1 September 2019 | | Rhinoplasty | Pediatric pituitary adenomas, Pituitary tumors, Transsphenoidal surgery
This retrospective study compares paediatric with adult patients undergoing pituitary adenoma surgery over a period of 26 years at a single institution. All surgeries were performed via a sublabial approach using the operating microscope. An endoscope was used occasionally for...

Puberty and rhinitis

1 July 2018 | | allergic multimorbidity, asthma, birth cohort, puberty, rhinitis
While asthma and rhinitis are more common in boys compared to girls in childhood, whether this trend persists after puberty or not is not yet clear. Authors inspected the European Commission funded MeDALL (Mechanisms of the Development of ALLergy) to...

Diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnoea hypopneoa syndrome (OSAHS) without sleep studies

6 October 2017 | | Child, Early Diagnosis, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Questionnaire
Polysomnography is considered the ‘gold standard’ in the diagnosis of sleep apnoea but it is expensive and difficult to perform in children. Diagnosis based on subjective judgement is often inaccurate. An accurate diagnostic scale based on clinical parameters could obviate...

Patient and public involvement in research

1 January 2016 | | ENT
One step further from involving patients in setting research priorities is to involve them in the planning and recruitment stages of the subsequent trials and studies. Here, Carl Philpott and Aneeka Degun explain the concept of Patient and Public Involvement...

Are you sitting comfortably? Then we shall begin

4 June 2020 | | COVID-19, Audiology - Paediatric
Paediatric Audiologist, Natalie Stephenson, shares her experience working with children and young people, the impact of lockdown and the value of patient-centred care, throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Am I glad that I know The Gruffalo off by heart? Yes, I...

Dizziness: confusion, issues and considerations

1 November 2015 | | Otology, Vestibular Disorders
Douglas L Beck gives his unique take on the difficulties involved in diagnosing dizzy patients and the importance of well-founded research acting as the basis for any diagnosis and treatment decisions. Dizziness. Uh-oh. We really have a very limited understanding...

The changing role of audiology

1 January 2015 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants
Audiology has changed dramatically in recent years. Cochlear implants and high power hearing aids have made hearing really available to children with essentially any degree of hearing loss. Those of us who have been in the field for a long...

Foreign object removal from the ear or nose

1 July 2014 | | ENT
The range of nasal and aural foreign bodies that present to accident and emergency (A&E) departments, emergency rooms and minor injury units is limited only by the imagination. Aetiology and epidemiology statistics point to patients being predominantly children in the...