Search results for " audiologia"

Newborn hearing-screening project using transient evoked otoacoustic emissions: western sicily experience

2006

Summary Objective To study the incidence of congenital sensorineural hearing loss in all newborns introducing a screen test with a protocol no expensive, with a good “screen sensitivity” that could let an earlier identification of hearing impairment beginning early intervention by 2 months of age and increasing the probability of having language development within the normal range of development. Methods The study was conducted in Sciacca hospital from the beginning of 2003 to our days and was carried out with transient evoked otoacoustic emission using the criteria for PASS or RETEST and considering eventual prenatal and perinatal risk factors. All the newborns were divided into four group…

Exposure to ototoxic agents and hearing loss: A review of current knowledge

2014

Several experimental and clinical studies have shown that a variety of ototoxic agents (such as drugs, industrial chemicals and noise) can cause sensorineural hearing loss. The most common ototoxic drugs used in clinical practice include: aminoglycoside and macrolide antibiotics, quinoline anti-malarials, platinum analog antineoplastics, loop diuretics, and acetylsalicylic acid. Among chemical agents with potential ototoxic properties are: organic solvents, heavy metals, organotins, nitriles, asphyxiants, and pesticides/herbicides. Acoustic exposure to high intensity and/or prolonged noise can also cause permanent threshold shifts in auditory perception. Ototoxic agents can influence audito…

Influence on the transient evoked otoacoustic emission by GSM 915 MHz electromagnetic fields: comparative analysis between control and exposed groups

2006

Psicoterapia e Medicina

2016

In un’epoca di grandi trasformazioni tecnologiche è inevitabile che anche la medicina evolva il suo apparato tecnico scientifico verso forme e modalità ultraspecialistiche che se innegabili vantaggi possono offrire per la diagnosi e il trattamento di molte malattie anche gravi, rischiano di ribaltarsi negativamente sulla qualità umana della pratica clinica e sui modelli della relazione terapeutica. L’accento posto oggi di frequente sul recupero di una medicina umanistica e sulla più generale valorizzazione di una antropologia medica sembra proprio volto a compensare la preponderanza nella medicina contemporanea dell’agire tecnico sul sentire psicologico, a scapito di aspetti oggi ritenuti m…

Speech intelligibility and perception after cochlear implant in deaf children with or without associated disabilities: A review

2014

The ability to make oneself understood is critical to most human interaction, and as such, the failure to develop fully intelligible speech may result in a significant handicap especially in the child in learning phase. World literature has demonstrated improved speech intelligibility and speech perception as well as a good development of communication skills in prelingual profound sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) children after cochlear implantation. The literature considered as universally-accepted the usefulness/effectiveness of unilateral early cochlear implantation in severely-profoundly deaf children with or without associated disabilities. In fact this procedure, for children implan…

Tubal function in divers and non-divers: case control study

2009

Background. The aim of this study was to examine whether recurrent scuba diving during the time and frequent use of Valsalva’s manoeuvre while diving, increase functionality of divers’ Eustachian Tube (ET) comparison with non-divers. Methods. The study included 30 experienced divers (G1), mean age 25,8 years, who were diving from over 10 years. The control group consisted of 30 non-divers (G2), mean age 31,3 years. Each sample underwent clinical examination to identify predisposing conditions to middle ear barotraumas and ET dysfunction. ET function has been investigated by Inflation-Deflation test that shows baseline tympanogram, a second tympanogram shifted of the peak towards positive va…