ENTtoday: October 2016

Weaning Patients Off of PPIs

Long-term, high-dose PPI use may cause complications in some patients, but the weaning process may cause physicians headaches

Ethical Challenges in the Operating Room

Managing informed consent and overlapping surgeries

How Reasonable Non-Compete Clauses Can Protect Your Practice

Restrictive covenants in employee agreements can prevent your ideas and information from being taken by an employee to a competitor’s practice

What Is the Risk of Malignant Transformation of Vestibular Schwannoma Following Radiosurgery?

Radiosurgical treatment of vestibular schwannomas is safe and effective

Is Mitomycin C Useful as an Adjuvant Therapy in Endoscopic Treatment of Laryngotracheal Stenosis?

Clinical studies suggest that adjunctive MMC application may delay but not prevent recurrence of airway stenosis

Is There an Optimal Location for Tympanostomy Tube Placement?

There is no body of evidence to suggest that there is an optimal location for placing tympanostomy tubes, yet the anterior-inferior quadrant is commonly used

Is Cochlear Implantation Safe and Effective in the Elderly?

Current data supports a high level of perioperative and long-term safety for elderly patients undergoing CI

Pyriform Aperture Growth Curve and CNPAS in Kids

Can a more comprehensive treatment plan be based on a growth curve of the pyriform aperture for patients with congenital nasal pyriform aperture stenosis (CNPAS)? Bottom Line The growth curve of the pyriform aperture in children with CNPAS can aid in treatment planning and predict clinical outcome, but the severity of clinical symptoms rather than […]

Symptoms, Physical Characteristics, OSA-18 Can Predict Pediatric OSA

The clinical prediction model created for this study was found to be useful in identifying pediatric patients at high-risk for OSA among those with sleep disturbances

Intranasal Volume Increases with Age

Intranasal volume is larger in males than in females in the same age group, but is not related to body mass index

Narrow Band Imaging Improves Observer Reliability

The addition of NBI to conventional white light imaging improves inter- and intraobserver agreement for diagnosing (pre)malignant lesions in the larynx, hypopharynx, and oropharynx

Evaluating Abnormal MRI in Asymmetric Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Patients with an unexplained, asymmetric sensorineural hearing loss are significantly more likely to have an abnormal MRI scan

Nasal Decongestants Improve Nasal Airflow, but Not Eustachian Tube Function

Objective data supporting improved Eustachian tube function from nasal decongestants is lacking