BASLP 4th Semester Notes  » Paper 3: Diagnostic Audiology: Physiological Tests

Unit 1: Immittance Evaluation

• Clinical significance of physiological tests in audiology
• Immittance evaluation: Principle of immittance evaluation: Concept of impedance and admittance, their components,
• Tympanometry: definition, measurement procedure, response parameters, their measurement and normative, classification of tympanogram, clinical significance of tympanometry
• Eustachian tube functioning tests of tympanometry: basics of pressure equalization function of ET, Valsalva, Toynbee, William’s pressure swallow, inflation-deflation test.
• Overview on multicomponent and multi-frequency tympanometry
• Overview on wide band reflectance and wide band tympanometry
• Reflexometry: definition, acoustic reflex pathway, measurement procedure, clinical applications of acoustic reflexes, special tests