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Is wine blocking your nose?

1 November 2019 | | Otology
Salicylates are commonly found in a wide variety of foods, such as unripe fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds and spices. They play a role in growth and development of plants, photosynthesis, transpiration, ion uptake and transport. Non-steroidal exacerbated respiratory disease (N-ERD)...

Quick & Painless Treatment with Sterile Single-use Clearway Suction Handle

18 June 2023 | Research & Development
Ideal for use in A&E, ENT, and Audiology treatment rooms, DTR Medical’s Clearway Suction Handle has a soft malleable suctioning cap that effectively latches onto the surface of uneven objects and removes them, such as foreign bodies and plugs of dead skin and wax.

HeAL 2022: Hearing Across the Lifespan

16 June 2022 -18 June 2022
Scientific sessions on topics including speech perception, autism spectrum disorders, hearing impairment and dementia, cochlear implants and tinnitus.

Radiology and sinus disease: “the ever-evolving landscape”

1 May 2014 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
Computed tomography (CT) remains the imaging modality of choice in assessment of patients with symptoms of chronic rhinosinusitis resistant to conservative treatment. In the last 10 years, CT technology has seen significant advances with the development and integration of multi-detector...

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...

Elasticated retraction in head and neck surgery – a trainee’s perspective

1 May 2017 | | ENT, Head and Neck
The effectiveness of surgical technique and satisfactory outcome is greatly dependent on good surgical exposure. Retraction requires adequate traction and counter-traction of tissues in order to expose the tissue or organ under scrutiny for the surgeon. This is a universal...

A quick and simple approach to correcting the deviated nasal septum

1 January 2018 | | Rhinology / Sinus
Nasal septal surgery is a very common procedure that we tend to learn as junior trainees. Most of us still find that we have a lot to learn with every deviated septum that we encounter. There is a range of...

Laryngeal papillomatosis

1 May 2018 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Laryngeal papillomatosis remains one of the most frustrating conditions seen by laryngologists. Sam Majumdar gives us an overview of the current science and clinical practice. Human papilloma virus is a small (> 8kb) double stranded DNA virus with approximately 200...

Endoscopic arytenoid abduction lateropexy for bilateral vocal cord paralysis in neonates

1 July 2018 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
We are delighted to publish a further update on the use of the technique for vocal fold lateralisation in neonates from Laszlo Rovo and Shahram Madani, who have previously informed us of this new technique [1]. These cases are rare...

Targeted focal parathyroidectomy

1 July 2019 | | ENT, Head and Neck
Leanne Hamilton and Louise Clark describe their technique for helping to localise parathyoid adenomas. Surgically this can be difficult, so careful preoperative evaluation using imaging as described can help minimise difficulties intraoperatively when identifying the parathyroid adenoma. Preoperative imaging has...

Leaving an impression – OTOSCAN ear scanning solution

1 September 2014 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
Every person has uniquely-shaped ears that continue to grow over time. Making an accurate reproduction of the ear is an important part of delivering a customised ear product. From the early 1950s, this was achieved using a paste which set...

2020 Unmasked: Hidden strengths and vulnerabilities laid bare - By Joseph Sinnott

2 April 2021 | | COVID-19
Masks were everywhere in 2020. The most visible to stop the spread of COVID-19 but others concealed soon-to-be revealed strengths and weaknesses. In April 2020, the UK Prime Minister was taken to intensive care suffering with this new and frightening...