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Technical audiometry

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 450-2107/01
Abbreviation TA
Course title Technical audiometry
Credits 2
Coordinating department Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
Course coordinator doc. MUDr. Karol Zeleník, Ph.D., MBA

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1. Introduction to the subject, motivation, connection with professions, examples of application, summary repetition of the basics of anatomy and physiology of the auditory organ in relation to physics
2. Acoustics (general acoustics, noise and hearing protection, acoustic measurements)
3. Types of hearing defects and their diagnostics
4. Measurement and diagnostics of auditory functions I. (audiometry, tympanometry and vestibular examination)
5. Measurement and diagnostics of auditory functions II. (OAE, BERA, CERA, SSEP, VRA)
6. Hearing aids and replacements I. (hearing aids, technical principles)
7. Hearing aids and replacements II. (cochlear implants, bone conduction implants, middle ear implantable systems)

Exercises:
1. General principles of technical audiology, anamnesis, possibilities of compensation
2. Otoscopic examination, possibilities of surgical correction of hearing defect and its limits
3. Examination of speech, tuning forks, audiometry, tympanometry, verbal audiometry
3. Examination of OAE, BERA, CERA, SSEP, VRA
5. Adjusting hearing aids, principles, design
6. Measurement on cochlear implant, adjustment of cochlear implant, setting of BAHA hearing aid
7. Use of rehabilitation hearing aids in practice

E-learning

Materials are available at https://lms.vsb.cz/?lang=en

Literature

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Advised literature

[1] KATZ, J.: Handbook of Clinical Audiology. 7th ed. LWW, Seventh. 2014. ISBN-13: 978-1451191639 . 992 p