Otolaryngology, although considered a surgical specialty, also covers many diseases that are not cured by surgery. These are treated medically and thus the otolaryngologist should have a good knowledge of drug treatments. It also entails ability to recognize, when an ENT symptom may be caused by one of the patient's medications, particularly as this is easily remedied by changing the drug. Alth...

Abstract Objective Platinum-based chemotherapy drugs are associated with substantial ototoxicity. The hearing of children treated these should be closely monitored. Method A questionnaire was sent out to the 19 audiology departments national paediatric cancer specialist centres in UK looking at current practice ototoxicity monitoring. Results Responses were received from 17 (89 per cent). All o...

Salicylate, the active ingredient of aspirin can cause sensorineural hearing loss and tinnitus when plasma concentrations reach a critical level. The ototoxic mechanisms of salicylate remain unclear but hearing and tinnitus usually recovers a few days after intoxication. There have been few reports of salicylate-induced ototoxicity in Korea, and the majority is caused by a low dose of aspirin. ...