Main description:

Real-life cases enable students and practitioners to integrate adult-centered audiology knowledge into clinical practice!

Adult Audiology Casebook, Second Edition by esteemed researchers and educators Michael Valente and L. Maureen Valente presents all new cases, reflecting issues that have become more prevalent in clinical settings. An impressive array of international authors provide expert advice, best practices, and vital tools clinicians need to successfully manage patient expectations and achieve optimal outcomes. Seven sections encompass a wide range of hearing, vestibular, and balance disorders, other conditions that result in hearing loss, diagnostic exams for auditory and vestibular function, and treatments.

Key Features

50 comprehensive cases covering all aspects of adult audiology include thought-provoking questions and answers followed by a summary of key points
Full color audiograms provide a reader-friendly hearing loss evaluation tool
Simple and complex treatment approaches including aural rehabilitation, sound therapy, auditory processing disorder therapy, hearing aids, cochlear implants, and hearing assistive technologies
Discussion of a wide variety of diagnostic tools used for audiometric assessment

Essential reading for graduate level audiology students, this casebook is a must have for sharpening and enhancing clinical skills. It also provides a robust classroom tool for audiology and speech-language pathology professors, as well as a practical daily reference for audiologists, otolaryngologists, and ENT residents.

This book includes complimentary access to a digital copy on https://medone.thieme.com.

Contents:

Part I Hearing Disorders

1 Meniere's Disease and Aided Distortion

2 An Unexpected Cause of Sudden Hearing Loss

3 Audiologic Management of an African American Patient with Sickle Cell Disease

4 Diagnostic and Treatment Outcomes for an Adolescent with Left Functional Hemispherectomy

5 Tympanic Membrane Perforation as a Result of a Japanese Beetle

6 Middle Ear Effects from Playing a Brass Musical Instrument (with video)

7 Maximum Conductive Hearing Loss Secondary to Surgical Closure of the External Auditory Canal

8 When Mild Hearing Loss Accompanies Mild Cognitive Impairment

9 Audiologic Management of a Patient with Psychogenic Hearing Loss

10 How Auditory Processing Deficits Can Interfere with a College Student's Success in School and Work

11 Hearing versus Auditory Processing Disorders: Are Hearing Aids Enough?

12 An Unusual Case of Fluctuating Hearing Loss

13 Hidden Hearing Loss

14 Auditory Dyssynchrony: A Struggle to Understand Speech in Noise

15 Auditory Processing Disorder Therapy for Mitochondrial Myopathy

16 Asymmetric Hearing Loss: Evaluation, Diagnosis, and Treatment

17 The Origins of Physiologic Modulation of a Low-Noise Microphone in a Human Ear Canal

18 Occupational Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in a Zumba Instructor: Identification and Management

Part II Diagnostic Examination-Auditory Function

19 Nonorganic Hearing Loss: A Case Study

Part III Diagnostic Examination-Vestibular Function

20 Central Vestibular Dysfunction: A Case of Wernicke's Encephalopathy (with video)

21 Hearing Disorders: Vestibular Schwannomas and Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss

22 A Classic Case of Vestibular Neuritis

23 Vestibular Migraine Disease and Horizontal Canal Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo in an Adult Patient

24 A Case of Central and Peripheral Vestibular Impairment

25 Importance of Audiologic and Vestibular Evaluation in the Diagnosis of Unilateral Vestibular Schwannoma

26 The Presentation of Cerebellar Disease in Vestibular Testing of an Adult Patient

27 The Role of an Inciting Event Causing Vertigo

28 Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo Lateral Canal Conundrum

29 Adult Patient with Chronic Otitis Media and Recurrent Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo

30 A Case of "Definite" Meniere's Disease: Unilaterally Abnormal Caloric Test with Bilaterally Normal Video Head Impulse Testing Test

31 Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence Syndrome

32 Endolymphatic Sac Tumor: Audiometric and Vestibular Considerations

Part IV Amplification

33 Transcranial Contralateral Routing of Signal for Single-Sided Deafness

34 I Hear Worse When I Wear Two Hearing Aids

35 You Need to Take Care of Your Front End!

36 I Only Want Hearing Aids Today!

37 Innovative Hearing Device for the Treatment of Mild to Severe Sensorineural Hearing Loss

38 It Is Never Too Late

39 Hearing Aid Prescriptive Methods in an Adult Patient

40 Quick Fit versus Programming Hearing Aid Fittings: Acoustic and Perceptual Differences

41 Fitting Hearing Aids to a Patient with Mild Hearing Loss

42 Patient Decision to Purchase Hearing Aids: Bundling or Unbundling

Part V Cochlear Implants

43 Cochlear Implantation in Meningitis Caused by Streptococcus suis

44 Cochlear Implantation in Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media with Cholesteatoma

Part VI Hearing Assistive Technology

45 Hearing Assistive Technology: A Viable Alternative to Hearing Aids

46 Coping with Hearing Challenges at Work

Part VII Tinnitus and Misophonia Management

47 Young Adult with Misophonia

48 Tinnitus and Hyperacusis

49 A Case of Extreme Misophonia and Hyperacusis

50 Maximizing Tinnitus/Hyperacusis Sound Therapy with Real Ear Measures