Learning objectives

KNOWING AND REMEMBERING:
- the different types of stimuli that can be used
- the different types of noises that can be used for masking
- the different devices used for subjective and objective audiometry methods
UNDERSTAND AND KNOW
- tonal audiometry with different airborne or bone conducting stimuli,
- dynamic range reconstruction by means of audiometric and annoyance threshold detection
- speech audiometry with airway and bone stimulus
- how to carry out the topographical search for hearing damage, the interpretative basis of pathological recruitment and adaptation
- other audiometric examinations, the tone decay test
- tests of speech-in-noise ability with signal-to-noise competition
- analysis and parameters characterising tinnitus and its reducibility and suppression
- objective audiometric examinations with study of the middle ear's resistive system
- acoustic otoemissions and their detection
- short, medium and long latency acoustic evoked potentials
- myogenic vestibular evoked potentials responses, caloric testing, videonystagmography, electronystagmography, video Head Impulse Test with HIM and SHIMP protocol, static and dynamic posturography
KNOW AND KNOW HOW TO APPLY
- all instruments suitable for obtaining a detailed anamnesis
- subjective and objective diagnostic methods useful for identifying hearing and vestibular disorders
- an analysis of audiological patterns also for differential-diagnosis

Learning assessment procedures

Single semi-structured written test (open questions requiring short answers, questions with multiple-choice answers, true or false), 60 minutes available, grade in thirtieths. Cannot be taken as an in itinere test

Evaluation criteria

Clear and linear treatment, capacity for synthesis and critical reasoning. Good critical capacity for examples applied to technical-clinical practice.