Outpatient thyroidectomy: safety and patients' satisfaction.

Objective: To establish whether outpatient thyroid surgery is safe.

Design: Prospective, observational cohort.

Setting: Two tertiary care centres.

Transtympanic Ringer's lactate application in the prevention of cisplatinum-induced ototoxicity in a chinchilla animal model.

Objective: Ototoxicity is currently the most frequent dose-limiting side effect of cisplatinum chemotherapy. To date, there is no protocol to prevent dose-related ototoxicity, despite its prevalence and predictability. Previous animal studies have found lactate to be effective in the prevention of cisplatinum-induced ototoxicity.

Ototoxicity of triethanolamine polypeptide (cerumenex) in the chinchilla.

Unlabelled: The use of earwax softeners and cerumenolytics to unblock the external auditory canal is increasing. Although reports on their effectiveness are available, data about their effect on hearing are limited.

Objective: To assess the effect of ototopic triethanolamine polypeptide oleate condensate 10% (Cerumenex) on hearing.