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Oscar Wilde’s Final Irony

27 February 2020 | | ENT
The celebrated writer and poet, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on 16 October 1854 in Dublin. He distinguished himself as a classicist at Trinity College Dublin before, earning a scholarship to Oxford University, where he gained a double...

Communicating with patients in 
‘Plain English’

1 January 2014 | | ENT
Physicians have long been accused of using unnecessarily complicated language and impenetrable jargon as a way of maintaining their status, prestige and high earnings-potential, bamboozling the public and excluding them from meaningful discussion as part of what George Bernard Shaw...

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...

Acoustic shock: definitions and clinical aspects

27 February 2020 | | ENT, Otology, Audiology - Diagnostic
Acoustic shock, a previously little-known and poorly understood clinical entity, came to the public’s attention in 2019 due to a high-profile legal case of a musician at the Royal Opera House. In this fascinating article, Andrew Parker and William Parker...

Questionnaires to measure tinnitus severity

24 May 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Tinnitus
The handicap associated with tinnitus can arise from any combination of stress, anxiety, depression, emotional distress, insomnia, difficulties concentrating, or impairments in quality of life or everyday functioning. Measuring such handicap and determining clinical need is therefore far from trivial....

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and the vestibular system: a case study

1 November 2015 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Vestibular Disorders, Audiology - Diagnostic
This team of audiologists from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre discuss an eight year old with congenital CMV, a neonatal infection which is usually asymptomatic, and provide guidance on how to recognise the signs in the paediatric population, and screen...

Audiological monitoring in ototoxicity - Are we doing enough?

1 November 2016 | | 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...

In conversation with Shusheng Gong and Shahed Quraishi on ENT Masterclass<sup>®</sup> China

1 March 2017 | | ENT, Head and Neck
ENT Masterclass® China was a landmark event that brought an international training resource to Beijing. Profs Shusheng Gong and Shahed Quraishi discuss the organisation of this event, the training pathway in China, and the setup of a typical ENT academic...

In conversation with Professor Anne Schilder

1 January 2016 | | ENT
Flying the flag for research in ENT, hearing and balance Anne Schilder is an NIHR Research Professor and leads the evidENT team at the Ear Institute at University College London. She also holds a Chair in Paediatric ENT at UCL...

IFOS 2023

17 January 2023 -21 January 2023 | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants, ENT, Facial Plastic Surgery, Head and Neck, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Maxillofacial Surgery, Neurotology, Otology, Paediatric ENT, Rhinology / Sinus, Rhinoplasty, Skull Base Surgery, Speech and Language Therapy, Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery, Tinnitus, Vestibular Disorders
In our two-part coverage of IFOS 2023, Andrew McCombe writes about the ENT line-up and Mohammad Sabir reports on the audiology programme. Having lived and worked in Dubai for seven years , I should have got the hang of the...

Effects of blast and acoustic trauma: assessment of hearing status on war veterans

1 July 2014 | | Audiology - Adult, ENT, Otology, Tinnitus, Auditory Implants
Introduction Acoustical conditions of the military are often dangerous and there is a real risk of blast trauma and acoustic trauma [1, 2]. Levels of military noises maybe reach up to 125 dBA [3]. Weapons produce instant shock waves (10μs)...

OBITUARY: Dr David Pothier

1 September 2018
David Pothier passed away on July 27, 2018 in the early hours of the morning following a struggle with recurrent brain cancer. His passing extinguished a brilliant light, the likes of which few of us will witness in our lifetime....