Clinical Cases
Eight hand-authored cases that put the atlas to work. Each presents a vignette and its findings — audiogram, OAE traces, or DP-gram — then a single-best-answer diagnostic question with a rationale for every option, and a teaching point. Your progress is saved on this device.
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- 1. A routine well-baby screenFOUNDATION
A healthy term newborn, 36 hours old, is screened on the postnatal ward before discharge. The baby is asleep and the roo…
- 2. Absent emissions in an adultFOUNDATION
A 58-year-old reports several years of gradual bilateral hearing difficulty, worse in noise. Otoscopy is normal and tymp…
- 3. A NICU graduate who failed AABRCLINICIAN
An infant who spent three weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit is referred after failing an automated ABR screen. O…
A 3-year-old fails an OAE screen at nursery. The child has had several recent upper respiratory infections. On examinati…
A 41-year-old factory worker attends occupational hearing surveillance. Pure-tone thresholds are near-normal except for …
A patient receiving cisplatin chemotherapy is enrolled in an ototoxicity monitoring programme. A baseline DPOAE was reco…
A 47-year-old with episodic vertigo, tinnitus, and aural fullness has a low-frequency sensorineural loss that the patien…
An adult is referred after an absent OAE on a workplace screen. Otoscopy shows partial cerumen occlusion. Tympanometry c…