Otolaryngology-Head and Neck (All Articles)
RCT: Atenolol has similar efficacy as propranolol with fewer adverse events in the treatment of problematic infantile hemangiomas
20 Apr, 2021 | 05:32h | UTCEfficacy and Safety of Propranolol vs Atenolol in Infants With Problematic Infantile Hemangiomas: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Guidelines for Management of Patients with Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
20 Apr, 2021 | 05:24h | UTCCommentary: ATA Issues Guidelines for Managing Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer – HealthDay
Study shows antihistamines may impair response to exercise training
16 Apr, 2021 | 06:06h | UTCCommentary: Histamine-suppressing drugs found to reduce benefits of exercise – MedicalXpress
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
Extremely excited to finally share our newest paper: Histamine H1 and H2 receptors are essential transducers of the integrative exercise training response in humans. Published today in @ScienceAdvances. A thread: (1/12)https://t.co/R4FNiKWyG9 pic.twitter.com/U2HFHOY9eA
— Thibaux Van der Stede (@ThibauxV) April 14, 2021
M-A: Chemotherapy and radiotherapy in locally advanced head and neck cancer
15 Apr, 2021 | 06:29h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
What is the best treatment in locally advanced HN Cancer?
Our latest individual patient data network meta-analysis available here for free @TheLancetOncol: https://t.co/UuFvjpKO6I
Many limitations but by far the largest work on the topic (115 RCT, 29000 pts).
#radonc #hncsm pic.twitter.com/eNYHbxsB4Q
— Pierre Blanchard, MD (@PBlanchardMD) April 14, 2021
COVID associated with hearing loss, tinnitus and vertigo – new study confirms link
30 Mar, 2021 | 03:19h | UTCOriginal study: One year on: an updated systematic review of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 and audio-vestibular symptoms – International Journal of Audiology
USPSTF Statement: Current evidence is insufficient to recommend screening for hearing loss in older adults
24 Mar, 2021 | 08:12h | UTCScreening for Hearing Loss in Older Adults – U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Editorial: Screening for Hearing Loss in Older Adults: Insufficient Evidence Does Not Mean Insufficient Benefit – JAMA AND United States Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation for Hearing-Loss Screening Among Older Adults: An Opportunity in Insufficient Evidence – AMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery AND USPSTF Recommendations for Hearing Loss Screening in Asymptomatic Older Adults—A Case of Missing Evidence and Missing Treatment Options – JAMA Network Open
Evidence Report: Screening for Hearing Loss in Older Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force – JAMA
Author interview: USPSTF Recommendation: Screening for Hearing Loss in Older Adults – JAMA
JAMA Patient Page: Screening for Hearing Loss in Older Adults
Guideline: SARS‐CoV‐2 infection, COVID‐19 and timing of elective surgery
23 Mar, 2021 | 02:33h | UTCSARS‐CoV‐2 infection, COVID‐19 and timing of elective surgery – Anaesthesia
Commentary on Twitter
Our research has underpinned key recommendations in new guidance on SARS-CoV-2 infection & elective surgery from @Assoc_Anaes & @RCoANews & @RCSnews.
This guideline can act as a template for policy makers in other countries!
🆓https://t.co/kKgJXFf0vd pic.twitter.com/mJRasJTJws
— COVIDSurg (@CovidSurg) March 20, 2021
Podcast | Acute Otitis Media: Q-tips and Tricks
19 Mar, 2021 | 07:57h | UTCAcute Otitis Media: Q-tips and Tricks – The Cribsiders Pediatric Medicine
Systematic Review: Biologics for chronic rhinosinusitis
18 Mar, 2021 | 08:44h | UTCBiologics for chronic rhinosinusitis – Cochrane Library
Hearing loss prevalence and years lived with disability, 1990–2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
12 Mar, 2021 | 08:16h | UTCCommentary: Addressing the global burden of hearing loss – The Lancet
Related: WHO Report: 1 in 4 people projected to have hearing problems by 2050
Commentary on Twitter
✨NEW @TheLancet paper by #GBDstudy Hearing Loss Collaborators ➡️📄https://t.co/xogUcTn1zC
Over 1.5 billion people are affected by hearing loss. 80% live in low- and middle-income countries. Countries must act now to provide access to ear and hearing care for all. pic.twitter.com/V3ziTORaba
— Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (@IHME_UW) March 12, 2021
M-A: Early tracheostomy may lower the rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia and ventilator duration in critically ill patients
12 Mar, 2021 | 08:09h | UTCAuthor interview: Early vs Late Tracheotomy for Pneumonia and Ventilator Days
#Tracheostomy placement no more than 7 days after ventilator support may lower the rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia and ventilator duration https://t.co/gVPXoMEorN @Penn_ENT @UTHealthSA
— JAMA Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery (@JAMAOto) March 11, 2021
Study from 116 countries suggests surgery should be delayed for at least seven weeks following a COVID-19 diagnosis to reduce mortality risk
11 Mar, 2021 | 08:35h | UTCOriginal study: Timing of surgery following SARS‐CoV‐2 infection: an international prospective cohort study – Anaesthesia
Commentary on Twitter
Reported by > 100 news organisations and > 200k Twitter impressions in just a few hours!
Here is the new @CovidSurg infographic! Time to establish timing of surgery guidelines?@aneelbhangu @dnepo @JoanaffSimoes #FOAMed
🔗https://t.co/mRnV7U6u1w pic.twitter.com/BmKlxf9ZIK
— 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢 (@Anaes_Journal) March 10, 2021
RCT: No benefit from oral corticosteroids following endoscopic sinus surgery for chronic rhinosinusitis without nasal polyposis
5 Mar, 2021 | 08:22h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
Should you use oral steroids after sinus surgery for chronic rhinosinusitis w/o polyps? Steroids may have no benefit (and some risk!) as found in this double-blinded placebo-controlled randomized trial conducted by @StanfordMed https://t.co/mgtF3FYiVs
— JAMA Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery (@JAMAOto) March 4, 2021
Global patterns and trends in incidence and mortality of thyroid cancer in children and adolescents: a population-based study
5 Mar, 2021 | 08:10h | UTCGlobal patterns and trends in incidence and mortality of thyroid cancer in children and adolescents: a population-based study – The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Global thyroid cancer overdiagnosis in children and adolescents – MDEdge (free registration required) AND Global Thyroid Cancer Overdiagnosis in Children and Adolescents – Medscape (free registration required)
Commentary on Twitter
New #IARCpaper shows the incidence of thyroid cancer in children & adolescents, a rare condition everywhere before 2000, has increased rapidly in recent years in many countries, & suggests overdiagnosis is likely to be the main driver of these increases https://t.co/1ct8iEJSty pic.twitter.com/JIjBBAyKNv
— IARC (@IARCWHO) January 20, 2021
WHO Report: 1 in 4 people projected to have hearing problems by 2050
4 Mar, 2021 | 08:40h | UTCNews release: WHO: 1 in 4 people projected to have hearing problems by 2050 – World Health Organization
Report: World report on hearing – World Health Organization
Executive Summary: World report on hearing – World Health Organization
Commentary on Twitter
Today is World #HearingCare Day.
Over 1.5 billion people affected by hearing loss.https://t.co/581yAtKO0f pic.twitter.com/gbJ94IwZk3— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) March 3, 2021
Chronic suppurative otitis media: Cochrane evidence on treatment options
3 Mar, 2021 | 08:26h | UTC
The predicative clinical features associated with chronic cough that has a single underlying cause
3 Mar, 2021 | 08:14h | UTCNews release: Clinical features for indicating causes of chronic cough – American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
RCT: Endoscopic surgery improves survival compared with intensity-modulated radiotherapy in resectable locally recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma
28 Feb, 2021 | 20:45h | UTC
Systematic Review: Insufficient evidence to decide whether surgical intervention is beneficial or harmful for the early management of Bell’s palsy
26 Feb, 2021 | 08:20h | UTCSurgical interventions for the early management of Bell’s palsy – Cochrane Library
Summary: Surgical operation for Bell’s palsy (idiopathic facial paralysis) – Cochrane Library
RCT: Dimenhydrinate and metoclopramide equally effective in the treatment of nausea due to vertigo
26 Feb, 2021 | 08:12h | UTCComparison of efficacy dimenhydrinate and metoclopramide in the treatment of nausea due to vertigo; a randomized study – The American Journal of Emergency Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
RCT: Topical intranasal tranexamic acid does not reduce the need for nasal packing in epistaxis
21 Feb, 2021 | 22:02h | UTCThe Use of Tranexamic Acid to Reduce the Need for Nasal Packing in Epistaxis (NoPAC): Randomized Controlled Trial – Annals of Emergency Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary on Twitter
TXA wasn't better than placebo in epistaxis in this well done RCT https://t.co/qA3yEXyvaM
Excellent work @adamreuben + team
Many of us (myself included) believed TXA a game changer in epistaxis
This trial must make us reexamine our practice pic.twitter.com/5QQsihlGC6
— Anand Swaminathan (@EMSwami) February 20, 2021
fMRI identifies smell and taste malfunction in COVID-19 patients
2 Feb, 2021 | 01:16h | UTCfMRI Identifies Smell and Taste Malfunction in COVID-19 Patients – Clinical Imaging
Commentary on Twitter
Absent BOLD fMRI Activation of Orbitofrontal Cortex in a Patient With Persistent Cacosmia and Cacogeusia After COVID-19 https://t.co/bAa7sf6wNR
— Nat Rev Neurology (@NatRevNeurol) January 25, 2021
Randomized trial: No benefit from corticosteroid nasal spray for recovery of smell sensation in COVID-19 patients
25 Jan, 2021 | 01:28h | UTC
Randomized trial: Dexamethasone and post-adenotonsillectomy pain in children
22 Jan, 2021 | 08:19h | UTC
COVID’s toll on smell and taste: what scientists do and don’t know
21 Jan, 2021 | 01:26h | UTCCOVID’s toll on smell and taste: what scientists do and don’t know – Nature