Instrument Sterilization: What’s the Evidence?
Joint commission guidelines may be overinterpreted in some cases, with no improved value or lessening of harm.
Features
Tips for Physicians on How and Where to Make Charitable Donations
How do people choose where to donate their money? What are the best ways to donate? Here’s how to decide where your money will do the most good.
Departments
How to Say No to Patients, Ethically
Saying no to a patient’s treatment requests is often complicated
How Writing Helps a Medical Resident Better Care for Patients
ENTtoday spent a few minutes with Alessandra Colaianni, a surgical resident at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, to find out how she keeps up with her passion for non-fiction writing, while maintaining a busy schedule.
Letter from the Editor: ENTtoday’s Best Moments of 2018
ENTtoday’s goal this year was was to continue the things people love about while making the publication more timely, more fun to and leave readers with something to think about. Here’s a look back at 2018.
Overinterpretation of Sterilization Guidelines Could Interfere with Patient Safety
For many otolaryngologists, staying on top of compounding regulatory requirements can feel like an impossible endeavor.
How Best to Care for Biased Patients
A look at managing patients who show hostility due to your race, religion, or sex.
Do Electronic Health Records Deserve to Get a Bad Rap?
The promise of EMRs—more efficient workflow, improved patient care, even increased patient safety—may still be worthwhile.
Other
TRIO Best Practices
When Should a Level IIB Neck Dissection Be Performed In Treatment of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma?
In elective neck dissections for most HNSCC primary sites, level IIB nodes can be left intact, thus minimizing risk of damage to the spinal accessory nerve.
TRIO Best Practices
Does Perioperative Skin Preparation Reduce Surgical Site Infection?
A look at the ideal methods of skin preparation to reduce surgical site infection (SSI) in head and neck surgery.
Literature Reviews
Induction Chemotherapy in Oropharynx Cancers Produces Good Long-Term Outcomes
Neoadjuvant, systemic therapy and surgical resection followed by risk-adapted adjuvant therapy allowed a high number of patients to avoid radiation therapy.
Literature Reviews
ALEs an Alternative to Endotracheal Tube Electrode Neural Monitoring
Compared to ETT surface electrodes, anterior laryngeal electrodes (ALEs) provide similar and stable electromyographic responses with equal sensitivity during neural monitoring in thyroid and parathyroid surgery.
Literature Reviews
Intraoperative Endoscope Use Reduces Cholesteatoma Recurrence, Cost
Intraoperative endoscopic surveillance was particularly useful in evaluating the epitympanum, mesotympanum, sinus tympani, and supratubal air cells.
Literature Reviews
Oral Cavity Cancer Prognosis Has Improved Over Time
A look at the temporal trends demographics, treatment, and prognosis of oral cavity cancer over a 40-year period.
Literature Reviews
Shorter Height Associated with Higher Risk of Posterior Glottic Stenosis
A look at the association between intensive care unit-patient height and risk of postintubation posterior glottic stenosis (PGS)?