Starting a test without selecting a patient first
1. Press the
Quick Start
button on the
Home
screen.
2. The
Test Menu
screen is displayed.
3. See the test descriptions in
and
After the test, you can save, print or delete the results of the test. See
Regular testing
1. Find a patient (see
) or add a new patient (see
).
2. Press the
OK
button in the
New Patient
screen or the
Patient Details
screen.
3. This will take you to the patient’s
Test Menu
.
There are up to 7 DPOAE protocols and one TEOAE protocol. (The protocols available
in the Test Menu depend on your settings in the
Test Settings
screen.)
To see the details for a protocol, press the button with the protocol name. A Help
screen will open.
Press
OK
to close the Help screen.
Alternatively, you can see the test descriptions in
or
5.3
The DPOAE test
DPOAEs are responses generated by the inner ear to a two-tone stimulation. For each frequency that is tested, a pair of
tones is presented. The frequency of one of the tones presented is called F1 and the level of that tone is called L1. The
other tone is called F2 and its level is L2.
5.3.1
DPOAE test protocols
The L1/L2 pair is 65/55 dB SPL. Only
F2
is shown.
The test is conducted by measuring the frequencies in decreasing order; the results are displayed with the frequencies
increasing from left to right.
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5 Testing with Alpha OAE+