Editorial and production staff of the JLO have just returned from the 14th British Academic Conference in Otolaryngology (BACO). The conference was a great success. Feedback from delegates following publication of the JLO Virtual Issue on “Global Health” was particularly encouraging.
In the September Issue there are a number of articles that reflect the value of the JLO to a worldwide readership of clinical otolaryngologists.
Review Article
Management of recurrent acute otitis media in children: systematic review of the effect of different interventions on otitis media recurrence, recurrence frequency and total recurrence time. Cheong and Hussain review the role of antibiotics in paediatric recurrent acute otitis media. The available evidence concludes that prophylactic antibiotics are effective in reducing otitis media recurrence, recurrence frequency and total recurrence time.
Main Article
Antiplatelet drugs in elective ENT surgery. Increasing numbers of patients are presenting to ENT departments with haemorrhagic complications of antiplatelet drugs and anticoagulants. This important issue is discussed by Savage and colleagues, who review the extent of the problem and suggest strategies for management.
Clinical Records
Cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhoea revealing an unusual ethmoido-sphenoidal foreign body. A Aubin, S Moriniere, P François and D Bakhos.
Cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhoea as a complication of endoscopic endonasal reduction of blowout fractures. D-G Lee, K-S Cho, H-J Kim and H-J Roh.
There are two Clinical Records discussing cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhoea. In both instances endoscopic methods were used to successfully repair defects, one of which had been due to a foreign body present for 38 years!
