Hearing Evaluation Adults CEU Courses

The course reviews new candidacy criteria for cochlear implantation, including when to consider referring for a cochlear implantation evaluation, considerations specific to new patient populations, and outcomes of cochlear implant use observed for these patient populations. The course also reviews the use of imaging to personalize the mapping of cochlear implant and electric-acoustic stimulation devices.

During this session, the speaker describes how using computer-based audiological equipment can revolutionize the patient experience, as well as the practitioner's clinical workflow. The speaker also discusses strategies for optimizing older clinical equipment set-ups to facilitate data transfer in order to reduce or eliminate manual audiometric data entry.

This course focuses on cases that incorporate aspects of medical audiology and considerations for audiologists providing patient care in this population.

This article details the latest developments in the field of auditory biotechnologies that aim to medically treat hearing loss using a series of different approaches. The biotechnologies described in this interview include both restorative and protective treatments, and some of the molecular and cellular mechanisms behind these treatments are described along with the most likely patient populations for early clinical trials. Finally, the current state of offerings for auditory biotechnologies is also reviewed, and readers are pointed to appropriate information to connect their patients to upcoming clinical trials.

This four-course series highlights the next generation of audiology innovators and their pioneering approaches to meeting unmet audiologic needs in their communities and beyond. This peer-to-peer educational series highlights researchers, clinicians, and business owners and their pioneering ideas, care delivery models, and technologies which provide desperately needed niche services and audiologic care.

Audiologists perform and review audiograms for many types of employers. This requires a fundamental understanding of the differences between regulatory agencies and best practices in the context of hearing threshold shifts, age corrections and baseline revisions. This course will advance your knowledge in occupational audiology and link you to many resources.

This course presents research findings of individuals treated for idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss and analyzes improvement seen within the pure tone average as well as word recognition scores, an overlooked parameter reported on in literature. The research specifically follows clinical guidelines set by the American Academy of Otolaryngology and whether improvement can be seen beyond the recommended treatment onset.

This course discusses two recently recognized components of sensorineural hearing loss that can challenge speech understanding in noise despite normal or restored audibility, and contribute to divergent listening outcomes among patients with similar audiograms. The diversity of possible cochlear pathophysiology profiles that can occur under the common umbrella of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) highlights the need for precision diagnostic tools that can guide further individualization of hearing devices, and improve the specificity of candidacy evaluations for pharmacological interventions that are on the horizon.

An article reviewing what an audiologist should know to provide effective tinnitus clinical services. The course is not comprehensive, but rather covers essential concepts and reviews methods of tinnitus clinical management that have the strongest evidence base in the scientific literature.

This presentation educates audiologists about remote care capabilities and discusses the possibilities of telehealth for your tinnitus patients. This course is part of a four-course series, Destroying the Box: Innovative Audiologic Care Delivery which highlights the next generation of audiology innovators and their pioneering approaches to meeting unmet audiologic needs in their communities and beyond.