What is Hearing Preservation Cochlear Implantation?
What is Hearing Preservation Cochlear Implantation?
A blog for Parents, Patients & Professionals.
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April 2018
March 2018
WHO paper on hearing loss- WE NEED TO ACT NOW
World Health Organisation (WHO)
Rallying cry for the need for hearing screening, prevention, treatment and (re)habilitation.
Global Hearing Health_future directions_Bulletin of the WHO 2018
Mucopolysaccharidosis: Top 10 facts about the airway
Airway involvement in MPS can be multilevel and progressive.
In MPS 4 tracheal narrowing can happen due to disproportionate growth between the trachea and the skeleton.
In MPS 1 & 2 airway compromise can result from the collection of GAG deposits in the lining of the airway.
Airway obstruction in MPS can involve anywhere from […]
Lecture: ENT problems in children with Cleft Palate
Here’s the edited version- clinical images removed- of today’s lecture in Porto, Portugal.
BRUCE CLEFT PORTO 2018 Twitter
Key Points: Facial Nerve Palsy in Children
Here’s are my key point slides for tomorrow’s lecture in Porto, Portugal. […]
Lecture at the British Paediatric Otolaryngology Course
Delighted to be lecturing at BPOC, London UK, with my colleague Neil Bateman from the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and Manchester Children’s ENT Clinic.
Here’s my talk on Retraction Pockets and Eardrum Perforations! […]
Paediatric Cholesteatoma Lecture
Lecture from 7th ENT Study Day, Lancaster, UK.
This is my take on cholesteatoma in children. […]
February 2018
Audiology blog by Adam Walker: Making sense of OAEs, TEOAEs, DPOAEs & ABRs
Check out this blog from Adam Walker (Audiological Scientist) at Spire Manchester Hospital & Manchester Children’s ENT Clinic:
What is an Otoacoustic Emission (OAE)?
An OAE is essentially a measure of the function of the outer hair cells in the cochlea. There are two methods of eliciting an OAE: […]
Parents- Audiology blob about hearing and hearing tests
Adam Walker, Audiological Scientist
How do we hear?
Sound is actually vibration of air molecules, these air molecules are funnelled into our ear canal by our ‘external ear’ and they travel down the canal until they hit the eardrum. This causes the eardrum to vibrate, which in turn causes the three little bones inside the ‘middle […]
Presentation: Acute Ear Pain in Children
Many thanks to Salford Primary Care Together and Spire Manchester Hospital for inviting me to lecture on Acute Ear Pain in Children […]