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6 Introduction
1.3 Intended use
Name:
ATMOS
®
Audio Cube 31
Main function:
Quantitative and qualitative electro-acoustics hearing test
Medical indications / application:
Test and determination of the hearing ability
Specification of the main function:
Determination of the hearing ability (tone and
speech audiometry, suitable for the diagnostic and clinical application).
Application organ:
Ear
Application time:
For the short-term application on patients (max. 60 minutes).
Application site:
In clinics and practices for ENT doctors. The examination may only be
performed by healthcare professionals.
Contraindications:
None
The product is:
active
Sterility:
Not necessary
Single-use product / reprocessing:
No single use product
1.4 Function
Principle:
Audiometry is the subjective examination of the hearing ability, for which
there are several different methods. Unlike objective audiometry (tympanography/OAE/
BERA) the active cooperation of the person to be examined is required. The audiometric
tests are performed in a soundproof room.
Measuring method:
The ATMOS
®
Audio Cube 31 applies the tone and speech audiome-
try by means of air and bone conduction as well as in the free field.
Tone audiometry:
The auditory threshold is determined with a tone audiogram. The
patient is presented with tones of different frequencies. The volume of the tone is grad-
ually increased until the patient can perceive the tone, the so-called threshold. Initially
this test is performed by means of air and then by bone conduction. Together the result
is the tone audiogram.
Now it can be determined whether there is a conductive hearing loss (hearing defect in
the middle ear) or a sensorineural hearing loss (hearing defect in the inner ear) or if it is
a combination of both. If there is a difference in hearing between both sides, masking is
required for the non-test ear.
All the important supra-threshold tests are integrated in the ATMOS
®
Audio Cube 31,
they indicate in which part of the acoustic organ of the inner ear damage exists.
Speech audiometry:
Speech audiometry is not only the hearing of tones but also the
perception of complex acoustic information e.g. words, numbers or sentences which the
patient must then repeat.
Country-specific speech tests can be used via a CD or hard disk.
Significance:
From the combination of sound and speech audiometry, the doctor knows
in which frequency ranges the patient has hearing problems and what therapeutic
approaches have to follow from them.
The measurement of the tone and speech audiometry together with the measurement
of the otoacoustic emissions (OAE) and the derivation of acoustically evoked potentials
(BERA) as well as the tympanometry with a stapedius reflex measurement allow a
precise clarification of the hearing. With the help of these tests it is possible to elicit the
location, type and extent of a hearing loss.
The measurement results can be saved in a patient related database, be printed or
integrated into a doctor's practice software system respectively into a hospital informa-
tion system (HIS).