Audio-prothesis
Module Audiology II

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: Salvatore FERLITO

Expected Learning Outcomes

Study of audiology

Acumetry

Audiometric tonal examination

Voice audiometric examination

Impedance

hearing loss

Auditory Evoked Potentials

Prosthetic and surgical techniques of auditory rehabilitation

Detailed Course Content

Sensorineural hearing loss of childhood (congenital and acquired) both in the pre and post verbal age;

Neurosensory hearing loss in adults with particular reference to sudden hearing loss, presbycusis and socioacusis;

Transmissive hearing loss secondary to inflammatory pathologies of the middle ear in children and adults

Otosclerosis

Acoustic neuroma

Tinnitus

If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote way, the necessary changes with respect to what was previously stated may be introduced, in order to respect the program envisaged and reported in the syllabus.
Verification of learning can also be carried out electronically, should the conditions require it.

Textbook Information

Otorinolaringoiatria - E. De Campora, P. Pagnini. Elsevier

Silvano Prosser, Alessandro Martini ''Argomenti di Audiologia'' - Ed. Omega

Roberto Albera; Oskar Schindler "Audiologia e Foniatria" - Cap.V - Ed Minerva Medica

Course Planning

 SubjectsText References
1trattamento delle ipoacusie a timpano chiuso, patologicoAudiovestibologia clinica - M Maurizi , Ed Idelson-Gnocchi, 2000
2Trattamento delle ipoacusie a timpano apertoAudiovestibologia clinica - M Maurizi , Ed Idelson-Gnocchi, 2000
3Trattamento delle ipoacusie a timpano chiuso, non patologicoAudiovestibologia clinica - M Maurizi , Ed Idelson-Gnocchi, 2000
4Terapia medica, chirurgica e protesica della sorditàAudiovestibologia clinica - M Maurizi , Ed Idelson-Gnocchi, 2000
5Impianto cocleareAudiovestibologia clinica - M Maurizi , Ed Idelson-Gnocchi, 2000

Learning Assessment

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

Audiology is a case study

What are the acumetry tests

How to perform the audiometric tonal examination

curves of voice audiometric examination

what the impedance test studies

which structures are involved in otoacoustic emissions

What Auditory Evoked Potentials Evaluate

what are the prosthetic and surgical techniques of auditory rehabilitation

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