Aching for Change: Musculoskeletal Pain in the Operating Theatre Amongst Surgical Trainees.

Objectives: Work-related injuries are common among surgeons with up to 70 % being found to report difficulties. Given the extension expected to career longevity for current trainees, injury prevention is more important than ever. However, ergonomics education for surgical trainees in the UK is deficient.

Disinfection of flexible fibre-optic endoscopes out-of-hours: confidential telephone survey of ENT units in England - 20 years on.

Background: Flexible upper aerodigestive endoscopy is often performed in the emergency setting. To prevent nosocomial infection on-call clinicians must have access to decontaminated endoscopes.

Methods: A telephone survey of 104 ENT units in England replicated previous cycles conducted 10 and 20 years ago.

A Systematic Review of Antibiotic Prescription for Acute Otitis Externa.

Background: There is a perception among ear, nose, and throat (ENT) surgeons that oral antibiotics are over-prescribed for acute otitis externa (AOE), and the potential for topical therapy as first-line treatment is not fully realized in primary care. We evaluated the prescription rate of topical and oral antibiotics for AOE in primary care and in patients referred to the ENT emergency clinic.

Methods: A systematic review was performed by searching the MEDLINE, Embase, PubMed, and Google Scholar databases between January 1990 and October 2020.