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SONNET 3 – the next generation in hearing technology for ultimate user experiences

17 December 2024 | Company Profiles, Research & Development
MED-EL has announced the new SONNET 3, its smallest and lightest behind-the-ear audio processor for cochlear implant users. Integrating cutting-edge technology to enhance hearing experiences, it is designed to deliver an exceptional hearing performance alongside the latest connectivity features -...
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How loud is too loud? Smart ways to monitor noise exposure through your headphones

7 January 2020 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
As an audiologist, an increasingly common concern patients have is noise exposure from their headphones and how it will impact their hearing over time. It’s a legitimate worry considering the average adult is streaming audio content on their mobile devices...

Questionnaires to measure tinnitus severity

24 May 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus
The handicap associated with tinnitus can arise from any combination of stress, anxiety, depression, emotional distress, insomnia, difficulties concentrating, or impairments in quality of life or everyday functioning. Measuring such handicap and determining clinical need is therefore far from trivial....
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Augmented reality – a quick overview of potential technology

1 September 2020 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery
Is that the optic nerve? Where is the carotid? Both questions you would prefer to know the answer to upfront. This article discusses if augmented reality can help us with surgical navigation around the skull base. Although endoscopic skull base...

Outcome measurements WG5. Developing a core outcome set of measures for tinnitus

1 January 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus
Alain Londero presents a large-scale collaboration that invites clinicians and patients to develop a minimum standard for assessing the efficacy of tinnitus treatments. This will become an international recommendation for all clinical trials of tinnitus. WG5 is working towards a...

Lyric 24/7 hearing: could it help those with tinnitus?

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus
About Lyric Hearing Since its launch in 2008, Lyric represents the first and only device of its kind establishing a new category of hearing solution: 24/7 extended wear. Lyric is placed several millimetres within the ear canal, near the tympanic...

Audiovestibular findings in children with enlarged vestibular aqueduct

1 November 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Enlarged vestibular aqueduct is reported to affect up to 15% of the paediatric population with sensorineural hearing loss. Devin McCaslin and Bridget Smith provide an up-to-date overview of the mechanisms and clinical symptoms underlying the condition and share some of...

User perspectives of online audiological rehabilitation programmes

1 March 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Recent research shows that online audiological rehabilitation programmes have the potential to improve the quality of life of hearing aid users. However, there are still areas that need need improvement. Elisabet Thorén discusses some of the problems people face when...

Tinnitus and music

1 July 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Tinnitus
Marc Fagelson discusses how not just hearing loss, but tinnitus and hyperacusis and impairments to an individual’s ability to process music can adversely affect one’s quality of life, as well as their overall interactions from a societal and personal perspective....

The history of person-centred hearing care

3 November 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
In the World Report on Hearing, launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 3 March 2021, the use of person-centred care is highly recommended. In this article, we learn about the history of person-centred healthcare and hearing care. But...

The business of audiology: unbundling

8 January 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Many professions, such as law, accounting, engineering and some areas of healthcare charge hourly rates in a fee-for-service model. Administratively, this can be a challenge to track hours, bill clients/patients, and collect payment, but this does lend toward greater transparency...

AUDIOLOGY - In conversation with Hans Henrik Philipsen

1 July 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
So your background is in social research, how did you develop an interest in this area? I have always had an immense curiosity when it comes to understanding other people and other cultures. My early experience as a teenager in...