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Do the modern multiple microphones with beamforming facility really help implantees?

1 January 2016 | | Beamformer, Beamforming, ClearVoice, Cochlear implant, Naida CI, SRT, T-Mic, UltraZoom
In this study the authors aimed to assess the benefit beamforming multiple microphones provide to implantees. Speech reception thresholds were assessed in different situations; fixed masking noise from eight loudspeakers around the subject at 0°, ±45°, ±90°, ±135°, and 180°...

Do modern multiple microphones with beamforming facility really help implantees?

1 September 2015 | | Beamformer, Beamforming, ClearVoice, Cochlear implant, Naida CI, SRT, T-Mic, UltraZoom
In this study the authors aimed to assess the benefit beamforming multiple microphones provide to implantees. Speech reception thresholds were assessed in different situations; fixed masking noise from eight loudspeakers around the subject at 0°, ±45°, ±90°, ±135° and 180°...

Hearing protectors and speech perception

1 May 2015 | | Hearing protection devices, learning effect, speech intelligibility, speech intelligibility impact level, speech reception threshold
This study tested 31 subjects using hearing protectors by maintaining a constant intensity level for the speech signal while varying background noise levels. The goal was to use this test to detect speech perceptual abilities under different hearing protectors –...

Frequency Compression – is there a benefit?

1 March 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants | Frequency compression, auditory acclimatization, cognition, sensorineural hearing loss, speech perception
The goal of this study was to investigate whether frequency compression (FC) hearing aids provide more benefit than conventional hearing aids. Twelve experienced hearing aid users 65-84 years of age with moderate to severe high frequency hearing loss wore the...

What can the anterior cranial fossa fracture pattern tell us?

1 May 2016 | | anterior cranial fossa, applied anatomy, craniofacial trauma, fracture pattern, skull base fracture, skull base trauma
This assessment involves 81 patients treated between two regional major trauma centres in the UK. Fifty sustained a predominantly anterior directed force and 31 a lateral impact. They found that anterior impacts reduce the incidence of fracture propagated beyond the...

Free online music training for cochlear implant users: MELUDIA & MED-EL

3 November 2022 | Company Profiles, Research & Development
Hearing implant users, caregivers and hearing experts can now access a free musical online training that was curated with a special focus on CI users.

Hidden hearing loss in humans: cochlear synaptopathy is superseded by cognitive effects when listening to speech in noise

1 March 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Elizabeth Beach presents an overview of the recent research being undertaken at the National Acoustic Laboratories on speech in noise and its relationship to cochlear synaptopathy. Our team at the National Acoustic Laboratories (NAL) has been investigating hidden hearing loss...

The cochlear implant clinic multidisciplinary team meeting

30 April 2020 | | ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
The world’s first cochlear implant clinic was in Melbourne, where multichannel devices were designed by Graeme Clark at the beginning of the cochlear implant era. We are fortunate to hear from Claire Iseli and Rob Briggs, surgeon members of this...

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...

Surgical management of sleep disordered breathing

1 May 2015 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Snoring and sleep-disordered breathing are often described as multi-level problems, and different surgical procedures are required to treat the various sites of airway narrowing and/or collapse. Jonathan Hobson gives us an eloquent run-through the various options available to the ENT...

Paediatric vestibular evaluation

1 November 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Richard E Gans is a renowned expert in the areas of vestibular evaluation and rehabilitation techniques. In the first of two articles (see here for the second article), Dr Gans gives an overview of the approach he and his team...

True Cut – a dramatic biopsy from the world of surgery

1 July 2018 | | ENTA - ENT
True Cut is a stage play that asks: “What happens when things go wrong in healthcare?” It brings the hidden world of the operating theatre onto the theatre stage. ENT surgeon, David Alderson, talks about how the play came about....