Sanitizing Headphones Since the start of covid we have been receiving a lot of service calls due to nurses over cleaning audiometer headphones with alcohol. If alcohol drips into your headphones they can be permanently damaged beyond repair. The earphone will then need to be replaced and the new earphone calibrated to the [&hellip
Did you catch that? researchers found that an estimated 35% of Americans over the age of 40 — roughly 69 million people — suffer from an inner-ear balance disorder. By age 60 more than half of all Americans have a balance problem. This means if you see 40 seniors a day at your practice, [&hellip
Balance screening does not have to be hard or complicated. In the past many primary care physicians did not want to offer this service because it was difficult, time consuming and hard to read. Many balance testing devices use goggles which are difficult to work with, no matter how light weight they make the cameras, [&hellip
FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS Have You Identified Your Patients at Risk for Falling? As a healthcare provider, your patients trust and depend on you to treat their health conditions as well as to help prevent them. Familiarizing yourself with the factors that put your patients at risk for falling will help you to identify patients at [&hellip
Prevent falls & earn $30 per patient with this simple therapy Falls can change or end a senior’s life. Try giving your seniors this simple home therapy. Print out these instructions and go over them with your dizzy patients. If you have a ENG or VNG and can determine if the problem is vertical or horizontal just give them [&hellip
What you received was a small grey tube. Notice that on one side there is a small red dot. Insert your Midmark mouth piece into the end with the red dot (as seen in the picture). Push and Twist to insure a tight fit. Place this union of filter and adapter into your midmark unit. [&hellip
Recommendation from ERS Group (Respiratory function technologists /Scientists) Lung function testing during COVID-19 pandemic and beyond Hello My Friends I hope everyone is doing well. I just wanted to pass this along, ERS came out with their guidelines, and ATS soon to follow. The highlighted section on page two designates the requirement for BVFs. I’ll [&hellip
Safe Spirometry Is About You Too! Protect yourself and your work area from covid, TB, flu, measles and even the common cold. Use Filtered Mouth Pieces to Protect You and Your Patients Look at this example. (Right). When this patient blows with all her might, what area do you think she might be exposing [&hellip
Tympanometry as an Effective Hearing Screening Tool By Cassie Tuell Au.D., CCC-A The most common developmental disorder identified at birth is hearing loss. The prevalence of hearing loss also increases in school-aged children due to late onset hearing loss, acquired hearing loss, and hearing loss that has not been previously identified. According to the American [&hellip
Vision or hearing loss / autism risk Are you implementing an early detection program by Laura Geggel / 31 October 2013 Children with poor vision or a hearing loss are more likely to be diagnosed with autism than are those in the general population, reports a large epidemiological study published in October1.The study, published in [&hellip