The iHearingAids? New Technologies in the Hearing World.

Apple's new hearing health experience with AirPods Pro 2 was released this Fall of 2024, allowing any user with a compatible iPhone and AirPods Pro 2 to perform hearing tests and use the device as a hearing aid for perceived mild to moderate hearing loss. This innovation may increase accessibility to hearing testing and hearing augmentation for the public but there are many potential drawbacks that will impact hearing loss care. The advent of AirPods Pro 2 and the inevitable arrival of similar devices to the market will alter the clinical practice.

Quality of Popular Online Resources About Vestibular Migraine.

Objective: To evaluate the readability, understandability, actionability, and accuracy of online resources covering vestibular migraine (VM).

Study Design: Cross-sectional descriptive study design.

Setting: Digital collection of websites appearing on Google search.

Traumatic Events Preceding the Development of Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome.

Objective: To describe the features of antecedent head trauma in patients with superior canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS).

Study Design: Cross-sectional survey.

Setting: Tertiary referral center.

Detection and Quantification of Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP) in Human Plasma Using a Modified Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay.

Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is a vasoactive neuropeptide that plays a putative role in the pathophysiology of migraine headaches and may be a candidate for biomarker status. CGRP is released from neuronal fibers upon activation and induces sterile neurogenic inflammation and arterial vasodilation in the vasculature that receives trigeminal efferent innervation. The presence of CGRP in the peripheral vasculature has spurred investigations to detect and quantify this neuropeptide in human plasma using proteomic assays, such as the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).

Sex and Race Representation in Temporal Bone Histopathology Studies in the United States: A Systematic Review.

Objectives: The author's objective was to evaluate sex and race representation in temporal bone histopathology studies.

Design: PubMed, Embase, Cochrane, Web of Science, and Scopus were searched for studies written in English examining temporal bone histopathology specimens from U.S.

The Lasting Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Surgical Key Indicator Cases for Otolaryngology Residency Education.

Objectives: Early on during the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other government as well as medical institutions recommended that surgeons postpone nonessential surgeries. The aim of our study is to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on otolaryngology surgical training by evaluating changes in surgical volumes through various time points relative to the height of the pandemic.

Methods: We performed a retrospective review of all surgical cases performed by the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery department at a tertiary care academic center from 3 time periods: July 1st, 2018, to June 30th, 2019; July 1st, 2019, to June 30th, 2020; and July 1st, 2020, to June 30th, 2021.

The History of Otology and What We Can Learn from It: Putting Historical Research in Context.

Why study the history of scientific discovery in otology and neurotology? This is an especially important question in our surgical field, where standard mechanisms of medical science such as the randomized controlled trial are not feasible. Here, we discuss the benefits of engaging with the history of science including 1) gaining a fuller understanding of scientific methodology, 2) becoming critically aware of current knowledge and its gaps, 3) aiding diagnostic and therapeutic discovery, and 4) humanizing innovative thinking. Science is a human endeavor, and it is subject to the constraints inherent to humans.

Positioning for Middle Cranial Fossa Repair of Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence.

Superior semicircular canal dehiscence (SCD) repair through the middle cranial fossa approach is typically performed on a patient in the supine position and the patient’s head is turned to the contralateral side and secured with surgical pinions or supported on a headrest. However, traditional supine positioning method may place strain on the patient’s neck, limit the surgeon’s visualization of the dehiscence due to inadequate head rotation, and compromise the ergonomic positioning of the surgeon. Here, we present a novel positioning method for middle fossa SCD repair that allows for optimal head rotation in a semi-supine position, requires less set-up and patient manipulation than the park bench position, and does not require the use of surgical pins.

Vestibular Migraine: Clinical Aspects and Pathophysiology.

VM is a common yet debilitating migraine variant that has taken many monikers in the past. As a relatively new diagnostic entity, public and provider awareness of this disorder can be improved. Symptoms include vertigo episodes in addition to photophobia, phonophobia, nausea, and headache.