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VIRTUAL ELS CONGRESS - May 28, 2021
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Dear Colleagues
The ELS online congress is now just a few weeks away – on 28 May. You can register here, and the full programme is here.
There will be four parallel streams during the day on 28 May, so there will be plenty to choose from! There will be sessions on oncology, phoniatrics, airway, neuromuscular, HPV, basic science, Covid, and many others. Some of the highlights of the Congress include:
- Pediatric laryngology. Hasnaa Ismail-Koch is our “liaison officer” and session organizer. Look out for Zooming into Paediatric Airway management and Paediatric Feeding Issues.
- Neurolaryngology. We have a number of world-leading clinicians and researchers in these fascinating sessions.
- Airway. The session on subglottic stenosis will include a number of international speakers from the US, the UK, and the rest of Europe.
Ahmed Geneid from Helsinki has put together an excellent panel on Covid-19 in Laryngology, which definitively will be a highlight.
Once registered, delegates will be able to access the lectures “on-demand” until August, so it will be possible to watch all of the content in your own time.
I am very happy to meet you all again on the digital platform!
Cordially yours,
Prof. Christian Sittel
President of the European Laryngological Society
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Fees have been reduced for ELS members! Register now:
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The ELS meeting program will be organized in four parallel strands. The scientific program is available here:
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For more information visit our website:
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In case of any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our congress organizer Conventus by mail to els2021@conventus.de.
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Spot diagnosis - Win a prize!
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In this new column, we will be featuring a clinical case each month for practicing your spot diagnosis skills. Send in your answer to europeanlaryngologicalsociety@gmail.com and win a copy of the soon-to-be-published 2nd Edition Surgery of Larynx and Trachea by Marc Remacle and Hans Eckel! See this newsletter for more information on this book. The winner will be featured in next month’s save the date.
And don’t forget to submit your cases for this column*. The provider of the featured case will also win a copy of the book!
Spot diagnosis case 1
A 61-year-old male without any history of prior dysphonia presents to you with two months of voice complaints. He is a non-smoker, does not consume alcohol, does not have reflux, and has no known allergies. The endoscopic exam shows bilateral ulcerations with incomplete closure and reduced vibrations on stroboscopic examination. What is your diagnosis?
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* Please make sure to follow rules and regulations regarding the submission of patient material in your own country.
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2nd Edition Surgery of Larynx and Trachea
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Dear members,
We are now eagerly awaiting the second edition of the textbook “Surgery of the Larynx and Trachea” which should be available this year. Below Marc Remacle explains on how this second edition came about:
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“Some ten years ago, Hans Eckel and I co-edited a textbook on surgery of larynx and trachea.
The book dealing with all the aspects of laryngeal and tracheal pathologies, from dysfunction to cancer was well received not only in Europe and all over the world but as the majority of authors were European, a European flavor was predominant!
But of course, after ten years, many chapters are outdated, and new approaches are missing.
Springer, publisher of the first edition, gave us the opportunity to edit a 2nd edition
Again, the majority of authors will be not only from Europe but will also be ELS members.
And so, this time the flavor will be an ELS one.
The Presidential as well as the Scientific councils of the ELS have proudly accepted that the book has been edited under the umbrella of our society.
Non-European colleagues from USA, Middle- East and Asia, members of ELS accepted to join us in this effort.
New chapters like surgery through transnasal flexible videoscope or for modification of the voice pitch have been added, and others have been rewritten to match the recent advancements in our specialty, resulting in a total of 35 up-to-date chapters.
We hope that same as for the first edition, this textbook will be well received and will contribute to the teaching of our juniors as well as to the knowledge of the seasoned laryngologists”.
Hans Eckel
Marc Remacle
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Prof. Dr. Marc Remacle
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Prof. Dr. Hans Eckel
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Interview with a laryngologist about the impact of the Covid-19 situation in their daily practice
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Prof. Antoine Giovanni (Marseille)
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During the Covid lockdowns, in the ENT department of Marseille University Hospital, we were not requisitioned in Covid units and we neither performed tracheotomies in intensive care units.
However, our activity has been strongly impacted by the Covid epidemic, in particular our surgery program due to a decrease of available operating rooms. Patients were categorized into three types:
- Category A patients requiring urgent surgical management (for example in the laryngology field, a transorale laser cordectomy)
- Category B patients requiring semi-urgent care (for example, leukoplakia of the vocal folds or patients with laryngeal paralysis with swallowing disorders)
- Category C patients who did not require urgent care (for example benign lesions of the vocal folds such as vocal nodules)
The total number of hospital beds excluding covid patients was also reduced. These disruptions have resulted in delayed treatment for some patients and organizational difficulties, but they also allowed two important advances in our clinical practice.
On one hand, we have been able to develop office-based video-endoscopic laryngeal surgery. Indeed, being done under local anesthesia and directly at office, we could continue this activity without congesting the precious operating rooms (while obviously taking important precautions: adequate personal protective equipment and preoperative PCR test). We were therefore able to continue the laryngological activity by intensifying this practice, which allowed us to take care of patients who could not have been treated otherwise during this period. This has also enabled us to enrich our practices in this technique and to carry out new treatment strategies such as laser cauterization of laryngeal papillomatosis or Reinke's edema, injection of corticosteroids into vocal nodules, etc.
 In addition, we have developed a prototype mask allowing safe endoscopies through the placement of a perforation located opposite the nasal cavity and kept impervious by a plastic valve and a folding sticker. We then teamed up with a company for the development and marketing of this mask that we hope to be quickly accessible to all ENTs in France and Europe.
This period of confinement also led us to develop our translational research activity, in particular about the link between voice, singing and the projection of potentially infectious droplets. Indeed, particles emitted when speaking are one of the main modes of transmission of the Covid 19. We aim to study thoroughly the production of particles emitted when speaking, to analyze the velocity of particles and perform numerical simulations of their trajectories. This knowledge is a crucial element of prevention. Finally we will study how wearing a mask degrades speech intelligibility, by comparing masks with different geometries, and how the emission of particles correlates with the actual degree of voice load.
Some positive elements have thus been able to emerge among the misfortunes linked to this covid epidemic. |
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MEMBERSHIP OF THE ELS - 2021
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We would like to kindly remind you to activate your profiles in the membership system Claudin and pay the membership fees for 2021 if you have not done it yet.
Here: membership.com you can renew and pay for your membership. In case you do not remember your login details or have any problems with your fee or payment, please contact ELS Association Development Manager - Lucie Smidova - by email smidova@associationhouse.cz, or check a User guide - Claudin.
The list of membership fees is available on our websites.
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Our members are at the heart of the ELS. Please take some time to ensure that your ELS membership is up to date – do contact us if you have any questions. Just to remind you, your membership gives you:
- Reduced registration fees at ELS congresses (28th May 2021 - reduced fees can be found HERE) and other educational events
- An online subscription to the European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology (12 issues per year)
- Optional hard copy subscription to the journal
- Professional information
- Updated website and the chance to publish information about local scientific organisations
- The opportunity to participate in one or more Committees and Research Groups
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SAVE THE DATES / Future Laryngology events
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13th Congress of the ELS – DIGITAL
28 May 2021
Virtual/online form
Website: www.els2021.org
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SURGERY TECHNIQUES IN LARYNGOLOGY
Hands-on-Workshop
17 - 19 June 2021
Hamburg, Germany
Website: www.mevoc.de
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30th Congress of Union of the European Phoniatricians
6 - 10 October 2021
Xanadu Resort Hotel, Antalya, Turkey
Website: www.uep2020.org
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The FALL VOICE CONFERENCE
21 - 23 October 2021
Hilton Miami Downtown
Website: www.fallvoice.org
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6th UEP/EAP COURSE – ADVANCED COURSE ON DYSPHAGIA
4 - 7 November 2021
Hotel Crowne Plaza, Belgium
Website: www.eap2020.com
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World Voice Day – 16 April 2021
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Back in 2002, a group of voice clinicians (physicians, speech-language pathologists and singing teachers) launched an annual event, with the aim of increasing public awareness of the importance of the voice and alertness to voice problems.
The mission of the group is to share the excitement of voice science, pedagogy and the vocal arts as an application of all the above mentioned areas with the public and with funding bodies by organizing a global celebration of the World Voice Day on April 16 each year, joining forces with existing groups that have the same goal. More specifically, the group will
- organise a global choral concert, internationally broadcasted in real time, going from country to country, starting in the far East and ending in the far West.
- arrange a global series of talks, internationally broadcasted in real time, as well as videotaped for internet distribution, about the many different facets of the voice.
- identify and ask one person, a “pivot”, in as many countries as possible, who assumes the responsibility to initiate and coordinate various events in that country, on the World Voice Day
- create a web page where all events are listed and that also contains information about voice and voice science, and interactive voice analysis programs.
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We would like to sincerely thank to all our sponsors.
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Soluvos Medical hoped to see each other in person at the postponed 2020 ELS in Berlin.
Let us meet at the:
Virtual European Laryngological Society meeting on 28th of May 2021
In the meantime, we offer a product portfolio with a lot of Laryngology products.
- Renú Voice is the equivalent replacement for Radiesse Voice.
We supply Renú Voice in many European countries like United Kingdom-Ireland-Scandinavia-Baltic States-BeNeLux-Germany-Austria and Switzerland.
Renú Voice is a cost-effective vocal fold injection augmentation product, containing synthetic Calcium Hydroxylapatite (CaHA) particles with a diameter of 25-45 microns. The syringe contains 1.5cc and can be injected percutaneously or with a trans-oral needle supplied separately. Renú Voice is FDA and CE approved.
- WOLF TruBlue Laser: the fiber guided Blue laser for all ENT indications.
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- Boston Medical Products: for airway - oesophageal indications
- bess Medizintechnik products: rhinology and otology products
Kindest regards
Rose, Jeroen, Celine and Sharon
For further information contact Soluvos Medical team
Rose Henrichs – Jeroen Doomernik – Celine van der Hooft – Sharon Baltussen
T: +31 (0)403 041 717 or UK T: +44 (0)845 528 0071
E: info@soluvos.com
W: www.soluvos.com
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