Health Awareness
ENT 2021
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ENT Training: Is the reality now virtual?
Medical education for ENT residents has changed drastically due to COVID-19. Are collaborative teaching platforms, podcasts and interactive digital case discussion the way of the future? COVID-19 has led to a necessary overhaul of the routine practice and delivery of medicine across all clinical specialties. With high risk for intraoperative COVID-19 exposure and drastic cuts...
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Improving care to tackle tinnitus timebomb
Tinnitus can have a significant impact on a patient’s quality of life. New research is vital to helping find new solutions to treat the condition. Tinnitus – the sensation of hearing sounds with no external source – can be very distressing to live with. An estimated one in eight adults experience persistent tinnitus. There is...
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Ensuring hearing care for all
Deafness and hearing loss are largely misunderstood and this has been particularly exposed during this pandemic, distinctly with the lack of planning for communication access to health and support services. From the inability to recognise speech when masks are worn, to inaccessibility of telephone appointments, this is the reality faced by people who are deaf...
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Shouting out for better communication and education in dysphagia
In health, eating and drinking play an important role for physical, social and mental well-being. Definitions of dysphagia vary, making it difficult to quantify its prevalence and incidence or illustrate its impact on society. At an elemental level, it is swallowing difficulty for liquids, solids or both. It can be short-lived, intermittent or progressive in...
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Patients at the cutting-edge of hearing loss developments
UCLH BRC | Nottingham BRC | Manchester BRC If you have lived experience of a condition, your opinion and advice is going to be crucial to researchers, say two patients involved in new hearing loss studies. The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centres (BRCs) at University College London Hospitals, Manchester, and the...
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Providing support for the millions who find it hard to swallow
Difficulty in swallowing is a widespread health problem. In fact, dysphagia affects 590 million worldwide. The term dysphagia derives from the Greek; dys – meaning ‘difficult’ and phagia meaning ‘to eat’. Dysphagia is a serious condition that can be experienced by people who’ve had a stroke; head and neck cancer, progressive neurodegenerative diseases such as...
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No-one can see chronic dizziness – that doesn’t mean it isn’t there
Chronic dizziness is an often-hidden disability that can result from a number of different inner ear (vestibular) disorders. Patients with chronic (inner ear) dizziness can experience recurrent acute attacks of spinning (lasting minutes to days), movement-evoked imbalance or constant low-level dizziness. Additionally, they may experience hearing loss, migraine headache, tinnitus (noises in the ears), a...
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Post pandemic crisis of unmet need for hearing loss
Hearing technology can transform a person’s life, the challenge we currently face is how they access it. Thousands of people with hearing loss have been unable to benefit from hearing instruments during the pandemic. For these people, comorbidities such as depression and cognitive decline are inevitable. We face a major healthcare crisis as a result...
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Better communication and education are needed for ENT
World Hearing day highlights the need for greater awareness by public and healthcare professionals of ENT conditions and their impact on quality of life. ENT conditions are very common, covering everyone from newborns to the elderly. Symptoms are managed by healthcare professionals in community and specialist settings, but even more frequently by parents and patients...
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The future of hearing care is person-centred
In the first ever World Report on Hearing, the World Health Organization highlights the importance of a person-centred approach to hearing care. For anyone who wants to see hearing care that is designed around the individual and that enables people to be equal and active partners in the management of their hearing loss, the World...
