SPA 4302 Summer 2007 Pure Tone Audiometry The
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SPA 4302 Summer 2007 Pure Tone Audiometry
The Pure-Tone Audiometer • Electronic device that generates tones for determining _________ • Manufactured to specifications of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) • Air/Bone Conduction • Testable frequencies (A/C): 125, 250, 500, 750, 1000, 1500, 2000, 3000, 4000, 6000, 8000 Hz • Testable frequencies (B/C): ___ through _____ Hz • Masking control available
Test Environment • Background noise may affect audiometric results by _____ thresholds • Three ways room noise may be ______ • Earphone enclosure device • Insert earphones – foam tipped receivers that are inserted directly into the ears • ___________
The Patient’s Role • Patients must be aware that they are to indicate when they hear a tone • Patient response: hand raise, finger raise, signal button, vocal response, play • False responses – False negatives: patient ____________; misunderstood or forgotten instructions, feigning or exaggerating loss – False positives: patients responds when ____________ – usually occurs when there are long silent periods in the test
The Clinician’s Role • Convey task instructions to patient • Ensure understanding • Patient position – ____________________________________________
Air-Conduction Audiometry • Specifies _______ at various frequencies • Can’t tell whether deficit is conductive or sensorineural, or mixed • Earphone placed with diaphragm aimed directly over ______ • Be careful of canals that collapse due to the pressure of the earphones – use _______ if this is a potential problem
Air-Conduction Audiometry • Test the known or suspected ______ first • Begin at 1000 Hz – easily heard by most and high test-retest reliability ORDER of FREQS: 1000, 2000, 4000, 8000, recheck of 1000, 500, then 250 • Test at the octave points and the mid-octaves (750, 1500, 3000, 6000 Hz) if there is a difference of 20 d. B or more between adjacent octaves
Measuring a Threshold at Each Freq. • Start presenting pure tones at ____ HL – No response? Raise the level to 50 d. B HL – Still no response? Raise the level in 10 d. B increments • Whenever person responds, _______ d. B • Whenever no response, ________ d. B • Threshold=the lowest level at which the patient can correctly identify the tone presentation at least 50% of the time, with a minimum of 3 responses at a given level.
Air-Conduction Audiometry • The Audiogram – Frequency (in hertz) on the x-axis, Intensity (in d. B HL) on the y-axis – Moving left to right, frequency increases; moving top to bottom, intensity increases – Symbols are placed to correspond to threshold at a given frequency: Air conduction Bone conduction Air—Masked Bone—Masked Right O Left X < > [ ]
The Audiogram • Thresholds by frequency • Hearing by air and bone transmission
Severity of Hearing Loss
Air-Conduction Audiometry • Pure-tone average (PTA)=average of air conduction thresholds obtained at ___, _____, and _____ Hz in one ear – Useful for predicting threshold for speech • Percentage of Hearing Impairment – Ignores audiometric configuration and looks only at average hearing loss – Often confusing and misleading to patients
Air-Conduction Audiometry PTA (d. B) Degree of Communication Impact 0 -15 16 -25 26 -40 41 -55 56 -70 71 -90 > 91 None Slight _______ Moderately Severe ______ Profound
Bone-Conduction Audiometry • 3 Mechanisms of Bone Conduction – ______________ Bone Conduction • Bone Oscillator Placement ______, or, _____
Bone-Conduction Audiometry • Occlusion Effect – When the ears of patients with normal hearing or SNHL are covered or occluded, there is an _____ in intensity of sound delivered via a bone oscillator – Affects ____ Hz and below – Result of increase in SPL in the ear canal when the outer ear is covered – Markedly decreased when insert phones are used (as opposed to supra-aural headphones)
Bone-Conduction Audiometry • No matter where the oscillator is placed, you can never be sure which cochlea is being stimulated! (more on this to come) • Frequencies usually tested: – 250, 500, 1000, 2000, and 4000 Hz • Symbols for bone conduction are only connected on the audiogram (with dashed lines) when there is a _____ or _____ loss.
Audiogram Interpretation Look at: • hearing sensitivity by AC • hearing sensitivity by BC • AC/BC difference (a. k. a. the air-bone gap) No air-bone gap = ________ AC worse than BC = _______ hearing loss • Watchout: low frequencies at high levels via BC can be perceived as a _____ signal!
Another Thing to Watch Out For: • Cross Hearing: sound delivered to one ear but perceived in the other ear. • Interaural Attenuation (IA)—How much sound it takes to reach the other side: – Air conduction IA = __ d. B – Bone conduction IA = __ d. B • Danger for cross-hearing – For AC—If AC threshold in the test ear, minus IA, is greater than or equal to the BC threshold of the opposite ear – For BC—If Air-bone gap of test ear exceeds ___ d. B
Masking • Masking—keeping the non-test ear “busy” in order to ensure that it is actually the test ear which is responding • Noises used to mask: – ______—has approximately equal energy per cycle & covers a broad range of frequencies – _______—made up of frequencies that immediately surround the pure tone being tested • Insert earphones recommended because: – They lessen the ______ – They provide much more _________
Effective Masking: Calibration of the noise • d. B EM (Effective Masking) describes the level to which a threshold will shift in the presence of a given level of noise • So, 45 d. B EM should raise threshold for a tone to 45 d. B HL in the ear in which both are presented.
Masking • Masking for air conduction – “Shotgun” Approach – Minimum-noise method – Maximum-noise method – ______ method • Masking for bone conduction – Similar to air conduction – Beware of _______, and ______
Computerized Audiometry • Using a device remotely operated by a computer and data is stored • Computer can control all aspects of testing and masking and analyze patient responses • Used more often for _____, ______, and ______ applications (large number of people to test)
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