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Open Access Guide to Audiology and Hearing Aids for Otolaryngologists

COVID-19 ENT/OTOLARYNGOLOGY GUIDELINES

  • Hearing loss

    • Classification of hearing loss
    • Community based ear and hearing health care
  • Behavioural Hearing Assessment

    • Whispered and spoken voice tests and tuning fork tests
    • Pure tone audiometry
    • Speech audiometry
    • Mobile phone and cell phone audiometry
  • Outer & Middle Ear Assessment

    • Otoscopy & pneumatic otoscopy
    • Tympanometry
    • Diagnostic evaluation of tympanic membranes
  • Audiological Screening

    • Newborn and infant hearing screening
    • School-aged hearing screening
    • Adult hearing screening
  • Objective Hearing Assessment

    • Otoacoustic emissions (OAEs)
    • Acoustic (stapedius) reflexes
    • Auditory Evoked Potentials - Underlying prnciples
    • Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) - Clinical practice
  • Audiology for Special Populations

    • Audiology for infants
    • Tuberculosis, HIV and aminoglycoside related ototoxicity
    • Occupatioinal audiology (Industrial screening)
  • Audiological Management

    • Ear wax removal technique
    • Bone conduction device surgery (English), (French), (Spanish)
    • Cochlear Implants in Developing Countries
  • Hearing Aids

    • Fitting Hearing Aids: Technical aspects (English)
    • Fitting Hearing Aids: Clinical and Practical aspects
  • Telehealth in Audiology

    • Telehealth for diagnosis of hearing loss
    • Telehealth for audiological management

This is a free text, and is intended particularly for those involved with management of hearing problems in the developing world where qualified audiologists are frequently not available.

The Open Access Guide to Audiology and Hearing Aids for Otolaryngologists is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial 3.0 Unported License. There are no copyright restrictions, and colleagues are welcome to use, copy and quote as they wish. The textbook is still in evolution, and chapters will be added as they are completed over the coming months.

 


Note from Editors

The textbook is still in evolution, and chapters will be added as they are completed over the coming months. Simply click on completed chapters in Blue to access the PDF document.
Johan Fagan, Claude Laurent and De Wet Swanepoel

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