2020/2021

2024/2025

DM270

MED/32 (AUDIOLOGY)

DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE AND THERAPEUTICS

MEDICINE AND SURGERY

PERCORSO COMUNE

5°

1st semester (30/09/2024 - 15/01/2025)

1

8 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

CANZI PIETRO - 1 ECTS

It is required adequate knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the head and neck region

AUDIOLOGY - Student objectives:
) To be able to describe the pathophysiology of the external and middle ear; to be able to recognize the clinical aspects of chronic and acute inflammatory disorders (e.g. external otitis, acute otitis media, otitis media with effusion, chronic suppurative otitis media and chronic otitis media with cholesteatoma) (*).
2) To learn the diagnostic and therapeutic criteria addressed to the main hearing and vestibular disorders (e.g. conductive hearing loss, sensorineural hearing loss, mixed hearing loss of different severity degrees, Menière disease, acute vestibular loss, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, acoustic neuroma) (*).
3) To be able to describe the pathophysiology, clinical aspects and treatment of ENT emergencies: sudden hearing loss, sudden vestibular loss, acute facial nerve paralysis (*).
4) To learn the main criteria underlying the diagnostic procedures (otoscopy and otomicroscopy, hearing and vestibular clinical/instrumental tests) and to be able to demonstrate competence in the interpretation of their results (*).
5) Facial nerve: anatomy, physiology and clinical aspects of facial nerve disorders (*)
6) To acquire appropriate knowledge of hearing rehabilitation (e.g. hearing aids, implantable hearing aids), the legal obligations ruling industrial audiology and principles of forensic audiology.
7) To develop a general understanding of healthcare audiology in children and adults.
(*) common with otorhinolaryngology

AUDIOLOGY:
· Anatomy and physiology of the hearing and vestibular system
· Audiological semeiotics (otoscopy and otomicroscopy); tinnitus study
· Classification of hearing disorders
· Hearing investigations: pure-tone audiometry, speech audiometry, impedance audiometry, auditory brainstem
evoked potentials and otoacoustic emissions
· External ear diseases
· Middle ear diseases: acute otitis, chronic otitis (cholesteatomatous and non cholesteatomatous) and their
complications
· Tympanosclerosis and adhesive otitis media. Atelectasis and retraction pockets classification
· Otosclerosis
· Glomus tumors of the temporal bone
· Sudden hearing loss
· Presbyacusis; noise- and toxic-induced hearing disorders
· Central hearing loss
· Hearing rehabilitation: traditional hearing aids, implantable hearing aids, cochlear implants and auditory brain
system implants
· Vestibular and otoneurological semeiotics
· Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and labyrinth lithiasis
· Perilymphatic fistula and superior canal dehiscence syndrome
· Menière disease
· Vestibular neuritis
· Acoustic neuroma
· Facial nerve palsy

Frontal lectures
Clinical Case Study
Tutorial or guided practice
Simulation – Role-playing
Seminars

Module of Otorhinolaryngology and Audiology:

- Otorinolaringoiatria - de Campora - Pagnini - Elsevier, 2013

-Trattato di Otorinolaringoiatria ed Audiologia - Pignataro - Cesarani - Felisati - Schindler. Ed. EdiSES

(Otorhinolaryngology - Audiology - Ophthalmology - Maxillofacial Surgery-Dentistry)

The Sensory System Disease has been shared into 3 different units:
Unit A: Otorhinolaryngology and Audiology;
Unit B: Ophthalmology;
Unit C: Maxillofacial Surgery Dentistry.

The student will be submitted to an oral exam for Otorhinolaryngology- Audiology and Ophthalmology and a written exam for Maxillofacial Surgery-Dentistry.
The Sensory System Diseases course is an integrated course including three modules:
- Ophthalmology 3 CFU
- Otorhinolaryngology- Audiology 3 CFU
- Maxillofacial Surgery-Dentistry 2 CFU
In order to see the final grade in the personal area, students will have to sit every module.
Each unit’s exam may be taken simultaneously or at different times; anyway, all the tests must be accomplished within two close sessions.
Then Professors will proceed to the registration for the whole integrated course and students will get 8 CFU.
Generally, the examination timetable foresees a winter session (made up of 2 terms: February and December), a summer session (July) and an autumn deferred session (September). The examination timetable is established according to some specific temporal criteria, planning terms close to each other but also avoiding any possible overlapping, in order to facilitate the achievement of all three units in one single term.
Concerning the verbalization, the students have to enrol directly on their personal area only after having taken all the exams of the Sensory System Diseases course.
In case of failure, the student may possibly repeat the test in the next term of the same session, at complete discretion of the professor.

Attendance of at least 75 percent of the face-to-face lectures is required to be eligible for the exam

This teaching contributes to the realization of the objective n. 3 Health and well-being, n. 4 Quality education, n. 5 Gender equality
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