This book is a practical guide to interpreting audiometric tests, alongside the clinical assessment, to make sound evidence-based decisions in the clinical management of adults and children with ear conditions.
Audiology is central to clinical decision making, but it is not always taught well to Otorhinolaryngology surgeons, and often not taught at all. This third edition of a popular and classic text is an essential revision aid for Otorhinolaryngology trainees preparing for specialist examinations including the FRCS (ORL-HNS).
Fully updated and well-illustrated, it provides up-to-date content on the management of a wide range of ear conditions and will be of interest to the whole multidisciplinary team including audiologists, audiological scientists, audiological physicians, private hearing aid providers and speech and language therapists.
George Browning qualified in 1964 and was awarded FRCS Surgery in 1970 from the University of Edinburgh, and later FRCS Otorhinolaryngology from Glasgow in 1976. George has worked in a number of countries through fellowship training and visiting professorships, including at Harvard University, the University of Cape Town, Flinders University Adelaide and the University of Toronto. He has received multiple awards, including the Walter Jobson Horne Prize from the British Medical Association in 1998 and the George Davey Hotwells Memorial Prize from the University of London in 2000. He was President of the Royal Society Section of Otology, 1999-2000; Chairman of the Academic Board of the Presidents of the 54 Sections, 2001-3; and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2005-7. He is currently Visitor MRC/ CSO Scottish Section Hearing Sciences, Royal Infirmary, Emeritus Professor in Otorhinolaryngology, University of Glasgow and Honorary Consultant Otolaryngologist, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow.
Emma Stapleton qualified from the University of Edinburgh in 2000. She has received multiple awards and following advanced fellowship training in Glasgow, Manchester, Australia, and Canada, she is now a Consultant Otolaryngologist and Auditory Implant Surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and Clinical Lead of the Manchester Cochlear Implant Programme. She is President of the North of England Otolaryngology Society; Past Chair of Women in ENT UK; editorial board member of several ENT journals, and is a Trustee of the TWJ Foundation, the Journal of Laryngology and Otology, and the British Cochlear Implant Group. She is invited to lecture nationally and internationally on her areas of expertise and is pursuing a part-time PhD in Audiology at the University of Manchester.
Haytham Kubba finished his training as clinical fellow in paediatric otolaryngology at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. He has been a consultant in children's ENT in Glasgow since 2003, with a brief interlude for an 18-month sabbatical at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. He is an Honorary Associate Professor and Subdean for Child Health at Glasgow University. He will be President of the British Association for Paediatric Otolaryngology from September 2024 and has previously been on the council of ENT Scotland and the Otorhinolaryngological Research Society. He is a regular speaker at international conferences and has organised and taught on a number of postgraduate courses. He will be President of the British Association for Paediatric Otolaryngology from September 2024
