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Audiovestibular findings in children with enlarged vestibular aqueduct

1 November 2015 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Vestibular Disorders
Enlarged vestibular aqueduct is reported to affect up to 15% of the paediatric population with sensorineural hearing loss. Devin McCaslin and Bridget Smith provide an up-to-date overview of the mechanisms and clinical symptoms underlying the condition and share some of...

ENT leadership

1 September 2014 | | ENT
Challenges The first challenge is to agree what we mean by the term leadership because there are many different ways in which the term is used. What is, however, a consensus is that the key distinction between leadership and management...

Clinical utility and practical interpretation of the video head impulse test

1 November 2015 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Vestibular Disorders
The head impulse test (HIT) is an essential bedside test to detect peripheral vestibular deficits. The video head impulse test (vHIT) is a new tool quantifying the HIT. In this article Maria Heuberger and colleagues point out the clinical utility...

AUD In this issue...Space and Extreme Environments

4 November 2021 |
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Audiology. Its ongoing mission: to explore strange new research. To seek out new articles and new technology.

Rotational chair testing: “To rotate, or not to rotate, that is the real question”

1 November 2015 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Vestibular Disorders
Passive whole body rotation tests are widely considered to be the ‘gold standard’ for the identification of bilateral peripheral vestibular disorders (bPVD), but also have a part to play in identifying unilateral disorders (uPVD). In this article Paul Radomskij discusses...

ENT UK BSO Balance Course & BSO Annual Meeting

3 May 2023 -4 May 2023 | ENT, Vestibular Disorders
Hannah Lancer, ST8 ENT Registrar, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, West Midlands. Hosted in the recently refurbished Royal College of Surgeons of England, the popular BSO Balance Course commenced with a morning of informative talks from both national and international faculty. Delegates...

Vestibular rehabilitation therapy: diagnosis based strategies

1 November 2015 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Vestibular Disorders
In his second article on this topic (see here for the first article), Richard E Gans explains how to use vestibular rehabilitation therapy to treat vestibular patients, and demonstrates why this method of diagnosis based strategies has proved so successful....

Fall prevention in the elderly population

5 July 2022 | | Audiology - Adult, Vestibular Disorders
A fall in later life can have a catastrophic impact on a person’s quality of life. Lilian Felipe explains how falls prevention programmes and vestibular rehabilitation can help.

Microgravity: an extreme environment for otolith organs

4 November 2021 | | Audiology - Adult, Vestibular Disorders
Motion sickness in a car can be upsetting for all involved. Transferring this concept into a tiny cabin bound for space could have devastating consequences. Are the processes involved in ‘space motion sickness’ the same as motion sickness? How do...

In conversation with Professor Seiji Kakehata

7 April 2021 | | ENT, Otology
Endoscopic ear surgery has been a rapidly evolving area of clinical practice in recent years. Our Global Ambassador in the Far East/ASEAN Region, Professor Tatsuya Yamasoba talks to one of the main exponents of this technique, and about the next...

BACO International 2018: Key Speakers

1 January 2018 | | ENT, Otology, Neurotology, Head and Neck, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Skull Base Surgery
Prof Aldo C Stamm, MD, MSc, PhD Anatomy of the paranasal sinuses and skull base, and breaking the paradigms in severe spontaneous epistaxis It is a true honour to participate as an invited faculty member at the upcoming BACO International...

Auditory brainstem implant results in adults and children

5 June 2017 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Adult, Auditory Implants, ENT, Paediatric ENT, Otology
Background The auditory brainstem implant (ABI) has been developed from cochlear implant (CI) technology and is indicated for people who have anatomical abnormalities of the cochlea or dysfunction of the auditory nerve. The majority of people who have received an...