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VIRTUAL ELS CONGRESS - May 28, 2021
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Dear ELS members,
we would like to invite you to the next meeting of the European Laryngological Society on May 28, 2021 that will take place as digital conference.
The ELS meeting program will be organized in four parallel strands in one day. The program is currently being updated, an overview will follow shortly ( HERE).
Subscribe for our conference newsletter and keep yourselves updated with the latest news about the event! Newsletter subscription HERE.
We are very much looking forward to meeting together!
For all current information about the conference look at our homepage where all the necessary information will be gradually added, including the possibility of registration:
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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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On 21 January 2021, the ELS online General Assembly took place.
The reason the special General Assembly was held is the fact that it was needed to approve ELS accounts to keep in line with requirments of Belgian fiscal law. This procedure should have taken place during the Stuttgart conference in 2020 however the pandemic has unfortunately interrupted both ELS conference schedule and governance procedures.
Topics and decisions:
- Ratification of the composition of the Presidential Council.
- Approval of finances for the years 2017, 2018, 2019
- Special release from liability to be granted to the board members for not having drawn up the annual accounts within the legal determined timeframe.
- Invitation to ELS Congress 2021.
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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:
- An online subscription to the European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology (12 issues per year)
- Optional hard copy subscription to the journal
- Professional information
- Reduced registration fees at ELS congresses and other educational events
- 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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LARYNGOLOGY IN LOCKDOWN – a view from our colleagues
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In each ELS newsletter, we will be talking to laryngologists from around the world to let us know how their work has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. This time, we speak to Jerome Lechien.
What has happened to your outpatient clinics during the lockdowns?
During the first wave, all non-emergency consultations were cancelled in Paris, but we were able to continue our cancer activity.
Have you been able to continue with “routine” operating, or just urgent/cancer cases?
Only emergency surgeries.
Have you been doing tracheostomies? Open or percutaneous?
Surgical, in the ICU, in the bed of the patient with anesthesiologists at the head to give curare to the patient to limit the cough when the trachea is opened (limiting the aerosolization).
Have you been doing other jobs?
I made a lot of researches about loss of smell. Carlos Chiesa and me published the first study reporting loss of smell as an important symptom of COVID-19. Approximately 50 studies published this year on this topic.
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SAVE THE DATES / Future Laryngology events
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Voice Clinics Forum
Managing Laryngeal Injury
Website: www.britishvoiceassociation.org.uk
1) 11 February 2021, 7–9pm: Surgical session
2) 16 February 2021, 7–9 pm: Tissue engineering session
3) 25 February 2021, 7–9pm: Research session
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2nd New Developments and Controversies in the Management of Thyroid Cancer
12 March 2021
Website: uk.aesculap-academy.com
This online event event has been postponed from Wednesday 9 December 2020 to Friday 12 March 2021.
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The Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meetings
7 - 11 April 2021
Website: cosm.md
Virtual meeting
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The FALL VOICE COFERENCE
21 - 23 October 2021
Hilton Miami Downtown
Website: www.fallvoice.org
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OLYMPUS EUROPA SE & CO. KG
Did You Know That Using NBI Can Improve Patient Outcomes While Reducing Overall Costs?
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NBI (Narrow Band Imaging) allows ENT specialists to diagnose and treat early-stage laryngeal cancer even more precisely and reliably. NBI is also a very accurate technology for follow-up procedures. It is clinically proven that by using NBI, doctors are able to detect more suspicious lesions compared to using traditional white light (WL), consequently leading to potentially reduced recurrence. Particularly when combined with high definition (e.g. HDTV), NBI can provide a more-detailed and higher-contrasted visualization of blood vessels than other endoscopic procedures. An example from daily clinical practice illustrates this: Before a patient’s vocal sound or vocal capabilities deteriorate, NBI can be routinely used to determine early changes in the vocal folds’ vessels, which can also be quantitively and qualitatively classified. Numerous studies, including a growing number of randomized controlled trials (RCT) and meta-analyses, highlight the clinical value of NBI, especially regarding cancer detection and examination of suspicious mucosal areas.
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How NBI Reduces Overall Costs
NBI offers superiorefficacy in the early diagnosis of laryngeal cancer in pre-, intra- and postoperative stages compared to WL endoscopy. As tumors can be detected at an early stage using NBI, potential complications are reduced and the time a patient needs to spend in hospital for treatment, follow-up and treatment due to tumor recurrence is potentially less. NBI comes with Olympus medical equipment at no additional cost for extra equipment, disposables or drugs.
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Click on the image to the left and watch procedure videos comparing Narrow Band Imaging to white-light endoscopy. Prof. Dr. med Christoph Arens (Otto-vonGuericke- University Hospital Magdeburg) performs a microlaryngoscopy with white light and Narrow Band Imaging in 4K resolution.
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We would like to sincerely thank to all our sponsors.
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