UNLABELLED In otosclerosis patients the most common procedure followed at Otosurgical Dept. Medical University of Lodz is stapedotomy with insertion of teflon-piston prosthesis. When surgery is finished a whisper hearing test is done from the 1 meter distance for brief intraoperative hearing improvement assessment. There is a number of patient who report subjective intraoperative hearing improv...

Speech audiometry is used to measure threshold, to assess suprathreshold intelligibility, to measure progress in lip-reading and auditory training, to detect the presence of malingering, to evaluate the effectiveness of different aids, to predict the success of otologic surgery and to aid in the diagnosis of both peripheral and cortical disorder. They are useful and often essential in modern au...

Introduction Estimation of the incidence of noise-induced hearing loss sustained in the course of current operations requires both preand post-deployment pure tone audiometry. In a study of reserve personnel who deployed to Operation Herrick 6, 10% of personnel had good audiometric evidence to support a diagnosis of noise-induced hearing loss and a further 32% had audiograms that suggested it1....

Previously found effects of age on thresholds for speech reception thresholds in noise in adolescents as measured by an online screening survey require further study in a well-controlled teenage sample. Speech reception thresholds (SRT) of 72 normal-hearing adolescent students were analyzed by means of the online speech-in-noise screening tool Earcheck (In Dutch: Oorcheck). Screening was perfor...