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Audiology Diagnosis – Third Edition

Audiology Diagnosis – Third Edition is a comprehensive textbook that provides an in-depth overview of diagnostic audiology. Covering topics such as pure-tone audiometry, speech testing, vestibular assessment, tinnitus evaluation and tele-audiology, the book offers a broad and detailed exploration of...

Communication patterns during audiological rehabilitation history taking

Nature of communication among patients, their communication partners and hearing healthcare professionals is an important part of audiological rehabilitation and can have some influence on the patient outcome. As history taking quite often forms the first instance of communication between...

Verification of Hearing Aids: A Practical Guide

Verification of Hearing Aids: A Practical Guide isn’t just another dry audiological textbook telling you what you should do. Instead, it completely bridges the gap between classroom theory and clinical reality, explaining the exact, concrete practices you actually need to...

Why, and how, audiologists should measure language ability: introducing AudiCloze

A cloze test uses missing ______ to assess language ability.How can audiologists measure ______ to help assess listening difficulties? Language ability and listening difficulties While it seems like stepping onto someone else’s turf, there is a strong need for audiologists...

The cochlear implant clinic multidisciplinary team meeting

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...

Congenital cytomegalovirus causing deafness in children: an update

Congenital CMV is the leading non-genetic cause of sensorineural hearing loss in children. Keith Trimble draws our attention to this and gives a comprehensive guide on diagnosis and treatment. Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection is common, affecting 1% of all newborns,...

Canal cholesteatoma

This is a retrospective study of patients with external auditory canal cholesteatoma (EACC) managed at a single tertiary centre from 1 January 2010 to 1 January 2021. Ninety patients (100 ears) were included. Mean age at diagnosis was 56+23 years....

Questionnaires to measure tinnitus severity

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....

What’s happened since the European position paper on nose and sinus tumours?

The management of malignant sinonasal tumours has gone through radical changes in recent years. Prof Valerie Lund gives us an update based on her upcoming talk at IFOS. In 2010 when we published the European position paper on ‘endoscopic management...

The drive for success: from the hockey pitch to the surgical field

A hockey ball is rock hard and can travel at 100 mph. Stopping it with your most vulnerable body parts seems an excellent metaphor for higher surgical training... Four years on from the 2012 Olympics presents an ideal time to...

Balance and fall prevention in individuals with hearing impairments: clinical insights

Exploring how hearing loss heightens fall risk and how integrated audiologic, vestibular and technological strategies can transform balance care and prevention. Hearing impairment is one of the most common chronic health conditions worldwide, affecting an estimated 466 million people according...

Assessing extended high-frequency hearing

The frequency range of human hearing spans 20 Hz to 20 kHz. In the UK, standard audiometry usually assesses 0.25–8 kHz; the extended high frequencies (EHFs) are those above 8 kHz. The importance of assessing EHF hearing has been increasingly...