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Importance of Immittance Measures:
-___ disorder: most common cause of loss in infants/children
-OME prevalence ___ as children are exposed to infectious agents (daycare, school)
-Children may be less likely to ___ for behavioral tests
- ___ anomalies are risk factor for permanent congenital, delayed, or progressive loss in children-Pinna, EAC, ear tags, ear pits, temporal bone anomalies
-Improving ME screening can help with diagnosis since ME disorder causes absent ___ and absent OAEs also explained by ___ disorder |
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Definition
| ME; increases; cooperate; Craniofacial; OAEs; OHC/cochlear |
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Tympanometry in Newborns:
-Tymps in newborns look different than for children & adults, likely due to anatomic differences like more ___ ear canal wall and ___ canals & middle ear cavity
-In newborns with ME disorder, 226-Hz tymps may appear the
same as in ___ ears
-Implications: Test 1000-Hz tymps in those up to age __ months and test with 226-Hz to obtain ___ |
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Definition
| compliant; smaller; normal; 4; ECV |
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Acoustic Reflexes in Infants:
-Reflexes are ___ at birth
-Reflexes are not reliably measured with LF probe tones since impedance in newborns’ ear is very ___
-ASR often ___ in newborns (with 226-Hz probe tone)
-Higher probe-tone freqs (___ Hz or higher) evoke reflexes in infants
-Reflexes in older infants are like adults if measured with ___ probe-tone freqs |
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Definition
| present; different; absent; 660; high |
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Reflexes in Children:
-High stimulus level may cause ___ ___ ___
-SPL in smaller ear canal can be at least __ dB higher than in adult ear |
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Definition
| permanent threshold shift (PTS); 10 |
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