Audiology

Audio-vestibular medicine unit is concerned with world class services to diagnose, treat, habilitate and rehabilitate cases with hearing, tinnitus and dizziness in both adults and children. It is also concerned with screening for hearing and balance in adults and neonates. It deals with neonates starting from day one of life. The audio-vestibular medicine unit is equipped with the most recent and advanced instruments. It produces highly professional services.  

Outpatient clinic services: 

Hearing Service 

• Pure tone audiometry.
• Speech audiometry.
• Tympanometry and acoustic reflex thresholds.
• Eustachian tube function test. 
• Sound field audiometry.
• Play audiometry.
• Neonatal hearing screening.
• Hearing screening for adults.
• Aided response audiometry.
• ABR for hearing thresholds.
• ABR for neuro-otological purposes and early detection of 8th cranial nerve and brainstem tumours.
• Oto acoustic emissions.

Balance services: 

• VNG.
• Caloric test.
• VEMP.

Rehabilitation services: 

• Habilitation and Rehabilitations for hearing loss and CI patients.
• Fitting of the most recent and advanced hearing aids. 
• Rehabilitations for vestibular cases.
• Rehabilitations for tinnitus cases.
• Rehabilitations for vestibular migraine cases.

Other services: 

• Management of difficult and complicated vestibular cases.
• Intra tympanic injections for sudden sensory hearing loss and Meniere’s disease cases.
• We have the most recent and smallest hearing aids.

Instruments:

-GSI Audiostar Pro 2 channels Audiometer.

-Large soundproof booth for audiometric test Puma Model PRO 45. 

-GSI Corti diagnostic and screening Oto Acoustic Emission. 

-Interacoustic Titan middle ear analyser with broad band stimulation. 

-GSI 38 tympanometer. 

- Maico MB 11 BERAphone for ABR screening. 

-Biologic navigator for ABR and auditory evoked potentials. 

-Micro medical 4 channels for Video nystagmography.