Clinical Practice Guideline: Otitis Media with Effusion
... is a low-cost alternative to tympanometry that does not require an airtight seal in the ear canal; however, validation studies primarily have used children aged 2 years or older with a high prevalence of OME.25–27 While no research studies have examined whether pneumatic otoscopy causes discomfort, ...
... is a low-cost alternative to tympanometry that does not require an airtight seal in the ear canal; however, validation studies primarily have used children aged 2 years or older with a high prevalence of OME.25–27 While no research studies have examined whether pneumatic otoscopy causes discomfort, ...
Nystagmus
... speed of the nystagmus leading to a decrease in vision can be related to: stress the patient’s emotional state fatigue the direction of view ...
... speed of the nystagmus leading to a decrease in vision can be related to: stress the patient’s emotional state fatigue the direction of view ...
CHAPTER ONE ORIENTATION AND PROBLEM STATEMENT 1.1 Introduction
... teams internationally (Waltzman, Roland & Cohen, 2002). This is also the case with the Pretoria Cochlear Implant Team (Van Dijk, C., Personal Communication, January 2006). It seems that there is a critical need for scientifically researched and meticulously reported information regarding the communi ...
... teams internationally (Waltzman, Roland & Cohen, 2002). This is also the case with the Pretoria Cochlear Implant Team (Van Dijk, C., Personal Communication, January 2006). It seems that there is a critical need for scientifically researched and meticulously reported information regarding the communi ...
Cognitive Auditory Evoked Potentials in Investigation of
... There is already a wide range of possible clinical applications of MMN. For correct conclusions concerning the neurophysiological recording results, it is necessary to know how different aspects of stimulation parameters and paradigms affect the responses in normal conditions and healthy subjects. S ...
... There is already a wide range of possible clinical applications of MMN. For correct conclusions concerning the neurophysiological recording results, it is necessary to know how different aspects of stimulation parameters and paradigms affect the responses in normal conditions and healthy subjects. S ...
Extended frequency amplification, speech recognition and
... hearing loss have access to early use of hearing instruments and therefore auditory centres of the brain could be stimulated during times of critical neuroplasticity (Cole & Flexer, 2007:80). Infants and children diagnosed with a mild to profound degree hearing loss (identified during the first six ...
... hearing loss have access to early use of hearing instruments and therefore auditory centres of the brain could be stimulated during times of critical neuroplasticity (Cole & Flexer, 2007:80). Infants and children diagnosed with a mild to profound degree hearing loss (identified during the first six ...
Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
... Most endoscopists, and especially beginners, focus on the individual procedures and have little appreciation of the extensive infrastructure that is now necessary for efficient and safe activity. Endoscopy has become a sophisticated industry. Many of us work in large units with multiple procedure ro ...
... Most endoscopists, and especially beginners, focus on the individual procedures and have little appreciation of the extensive infrastructure that is now necessary for efficient and safe activity. Endoscopy has become a sophisticated industry. Many of us work in large units with multiple procedure ro ...
Bimodal hearing should be standard for most cochlear implant users
... make use of inter-aural time delay for perceiving sentences in speech-shaped noise.15 The study concluded that normal-hearing listeners and moderately hearing-impaired listeners using bilateral hearing aids perceived sentences better when the noise was delayed in one ear relative to the other than w ...
... make use of inter-aural time delay for perceiving sentences in speech-shaped noise.15 The study concluded that normal-hearing listeners and moderately hearing-impaired listeners using bilateral hearing aids perceived sentences better when the noise was delayed in one ear relative to the other than w ...
THE EFFECT OF ELECTRODE PLACEMENT ON COCHLEAR
... hearing. This allows cochlear implant candidacy criteria to expand to those with good low frequency hearing and severe high frequency hearing loss above 1000 Hz with poor speech discrimination. With a less traumatic surgical approach, low frequency hearing can be preserved resulting in combined low ...
... hearing. This allows cochlear implant candidacy criteria to expand to those with good low frequency hearing and severe high frequency hearing loss above 1000 Hz with poor speech discrimination. With a less traumatic surgical approach, low frequency hearing can be preserved resulting in combined low ...
LATEST TRI NEWSLETTER (click) - Tinnitus Research Initiative
... risk for developing clinically significant tinnitus (sigT). SigT was defined by a discharge from hospital with a primary diagnosis of tinnitus, or a primary care recording of tinnitus with subsequent related medical follow-up within 28 days. The database used was the Clinical Practice Research Datal ...
... risk for developing clinically significant tinnitus (sigT). SigT was defined by a discharge from hospital with a primary diagnosis of tinnitus, or a primary care recording of tinnitus with subsequent related medical follow-up within 28 days. The database used was the Clinical Practice Research Datal ...
BILATERAL PROCESSING BENEFIT IN SEQUENTIALLY IMPLANTED ADULT COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS
... is considered to determine the implant demonstrating the superior performance. For sound localisation, the superior performing implant represents the implant with which the participant could correctly localise the most speech weighted noise signals. For speech in noise perception, the superior perf ...
... is considered to determine the implant demonstrating the superior performance. For sound localisation, the superior performing implant represents the implant with which the participant could correctly localise the most speech weighted noise signals. For speech in noise perception, the superior perf ...