Tele-audiology hearing test

A patient in Pretoria, South Africa is tested with a telemedicine-compliant audiometer by an Audiologist in Dallas, Texas. The audiometer visually documents patient responses on the audiogram. Green dot = patient response within 1.5 sec after stimulus presentation; Yellow dot = no patient response within 1.5 sec after stimulus presentation. www.teleaudiologynetwork.org

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Audiology
• audiometry
• telemedicine
• telehealth
• tele-audiology
• tele-audiology network
• KuduWave

[mergfkt]

How accurate can this be? Are the instruments in Pretoria ANSI standardized or is this presented as a 'better than nothing' case?

[dewetswan]

@mergfkt The device used is the KUDUwave audiometer by Geoaxon. It's a CE approved Type 2 diagnostic audiometer. Recent articles using the device:

Swanepoel D, Koekemoer D, Clark JL (2010). Intercontinental hearing assessment: a study in tele-audiology. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 16:248-252

Swanepoel D, Mngemane S, Molemong S, Mkwanazi H, Tusthini S (2010). Hearing assessment – reliability, accuracy and efficiency of automated audiometry. Telemedicine and e-Health,, 16(5):557-563.

[KPMay11]

Any suggestions how to go about performing aural rehab for individuals, especially children, that do present with a hearing loss after being identified using this type of audiometry?