Sage Otolaryngology

This podcast highlights original research in the March 2014 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation. Editor in chief Richard Rosenfeld is joined by author Edward Weaver and associate editor Eric Kezirian in discussing why functional comorbidity is essential to understanding the impact of sleep apnea on quality of life.   Click here to read the full article.  

This podcast highlights an updated Clinical Practice Guideline on Acute Otitis Externa (swimmer’s ear) appearing as a February 2014 supplement in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation. Editor in chief Richard Rosenfeld is joined by authors Geoffrey Simon, a pediatrician, and Kaparaboyna (Ashok) Kumar, a family physician, in discussing implications for primary care clinicians and how to optimize interaction with specialists.   Click here to read the full article.  

This podcast highlights an updated Clinical Practice Guideline on Acute Otitis Externa (swimmer’s ear) appearing as a February 2014 supplement in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation. Editor in chief Richard Rosenfeld is joined by authors Peter Roland, an otologist, and William Huang, a dermatologist, in discussing the key quality improvement recommendations in the guideline.   Click here to read the full article.  

This podcast highlights original research in the January 2014 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation. Editor in chief Richard Rosenfeld is joined by author Seth Cohen and associate editor Kenneth Altman in discussing how the diagnosis for voice-disordered patients can change over time.   Click here to read the full article.  

This is the first study of overall procedure-specific post-discharge complications (PDCs) after inpatient otolaryngology surgery. The authors studied over 48.000 adults from the American College of Surgeons National Quality Improvement Program database who underwent inpatient otolaryngologic surgery from 2005 to 2011, analyzing complications, reoperation, and mortality in the first 30 days after the procedure. The highest rates of PDCs were for laryngectomy (8.0%), lip surgery (7.4%), and mouth surgery (4.1%), and consisted primarily of infections (surgical site, pneumonia, urinary tract) and less often venous thromboembolic events. Factors associated with PDCs were increasing age, prolonged operative time, hospital stay more than 1 day, and American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) class 3 or higher. Implications of these findings for patient counseling are discussed in the podcast.

This podcast highlights a Clinical Practice Guideline on Bell’s Palsy appearing as a November 2013 supplement in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation. Editor in chief Richard Rosenfeld is joined by authors John Halperin, a neurologist, and Kaparaboyna Ashok Kumar, a family physician, in discussing aspects of the guideline related to diagnosis and patient counseling.

This podcast highlights a Clinical Practice Guideline on Bell’s Palsy appearing as a November 2013 supplement in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation. Editor in chief Richard Rosenfeld is joined by authors Lisa Ishii, assistant chair of the guideline development group, and Richard Gurgel, a neurotologist, in discussing aspects of the guideline related to medical and surgical management.

This podcast highlights original research in the October 2013 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation. Editor in chief Richard Rosenfeld is joined by author Emily Boss and associate editor Craig Derkay in discussing health disparities in chronic rhinosinusitis in children.

This podcast highlights a commentary in the September 2013 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation. Editor in chief Richard Rosenfeld is joined by author David Francis and guideline expert Seth Schwartz in discussing the role of evidence and guidelines in modern health policy.

This podcast highlights a systematic review in the August 2013 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation. Editor in chief Richard Rosenfeld is joined lead author Smriti Nayan and star reviewer Helene Krouse in discussing therapeutic interventions for smoking cessation in adults with cancer.

This podcast highlights a clinical practice guideline supplement in the July 2013 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation.  Editor in chief and lead author Richard Rosenfeld is joined by coauthors David Tunkel and Jesse Hackell in discussing novel aspects of the guideline and its implications for patient care.

This podcast highlights a systematic review in the July 2013 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation. Editor in chief and lead author Richard Rosenfeld is joined coauthor Richard Harvey and associate editor John Krouse in discussing implications for clinicians who perform endoscopic sinus surgery.

This podcast highlights a clinical practice guideline supplement in the July 2013 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation.  Editor in chief and lead author Richard Rosenfeld is joined by coauthors Melissa Pynnonen and Denis Lafreniere in discussing novel aspects of the guideline and its implications for patient care.

This podcast highlights a clinical practice guideline supplement in the June 2013 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation.  Editor in chief Richard Rosenfeld is joined by coauthors Julie Barkmeier-Kraemer and Michael S. Benninger in discussing a proactive approach to identifying voice problems after thyroid surgery and improving voice quality. Click here to read the full article.

This podcast highlights a clinical practice guideline supplement in the June 2013 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation.  Editor in chief Richard Rosenfeld is joined in by lead author Sujana Chandrasekhar and co-author Gregory Randolph in discussing how thyroid surgery can impact voice and what can be done to achieve the best outcomes. Click here to read the full article.

This podcast highlights original research appearing in the June 2013 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation.  Editor in chief Richard Rosenfeld is joined in by author John Greinwald Jr. and associate editor Thomas Eby in discussing the latest advances in gene-sequencing technology for molecular diagnosis of hereditary hearing loss.

This podcast highlights original research appearing in the May 2013 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation.  Editor in chief Richard Rosenfeld is joined in by lead author Stephanie Shintani Smith and associate editor John H. Krouse in discussing factors related to variations in antibiotic prescribing for acute rhinosinusitis in United States ambulatory care settings.

This podcast highlights original research appearing in the April 2013 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation.  Editor in chief Richard Rosenfeld is joined in by lead author Annie Simpson and associate editor Jennifer Shin in discussing the role of cardiovascular disease markers in age-related hearing loss over time.

This podcast highlights original research appearing in the March 2013 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation.  Editor in chief Richard Rosenfeld is joined in by author Hossein Mahboubi and associate editor Thomas Eby in assessing how well commercially available earplugs prevent water entry during swimming. Click here to read the full article.

Women comprise nearly half of all US medical students but they remain underrepresented in academic practice within surgical specialties.  To see if this occurs in otolaryngology departments, the authors analyzed faculty listings from academic departments and compared academic rank and h-index by gender.  The h-index was chosen to reflect scholarly productivity, since it reflects the number of manuscripts published by the author that have been cited at least that many times (e.g., an h-index of 10 means they published 10 articles cited by others 10 or more times each).  Men had higher h-indices than women at junior academic ranks, but the productivity rates of women increased and equaled, or surpassed, those of men later in their careers.  Women academic otolaryngologists of senior rank had higher h-indices than their male counterparts.  Despite this higher productivity women are underrepresented in positions of leadership and seniority, which is likely generational since the proportion of female otolaryngolog