Ear

patients lungs and heart before the stethoscope was invented? How they made accurate diagnosis without the essential stethoscope all healthcare workers use today? Before the early 1800’s physicians didn’t have a tool to do this. They would place their ear next to the patient's chest and back to hear the sounds of the body specifically the heart and lungs. The creation of the stethoscope changed the way physicians performed examinations, listened, diagnosed, and treated patients. The definition…

so many differently treated people it is hard to tell which one treatment will help everyone. Out of all thirty-four patients tested, twenty-four of them showed a hearing improvement with the implanted hearing device. The BAHA implant is a middle ear implant that 96% of patients with them had no complications after they were implanted. The BAHA implant has brought a number of reconstruction surgeries down and last longer for…

children is the condition otitis media with effusion, or also known as glue ear. Hearing loss typically occurs in part of the outer ear if it is congested. This then causes the sound waves incapable of reaching the middle or inner section of the ear. A conductive hearing loss can transpire in the outer or middle ear region containing poor conduction of sound along the channels leading primarily to the inner part of the ear. Due to this, sound is not focused well and is spread in a weaker and…

a human has a hearing loss in his ear, which occurs when part of the human’s ear system is damaged or doesn’t function properly. it could be noticed when the person is asking everyone to speak slowly and loudly, keep turning the volume of the television and radio up, and will end up avoiding social communications and events. There are three main types of deafness; Conductive deafness is a condition where there is a malfunction in the middle ear (either the ear canal is absent or not open at…

they are able to hear it. Music and other sounds create sound waves that travel into the ear, cause vibrations that pass through to the inner ear, and then sent to the brain. Humans…

indication that Lucas has an ear infection is that he’s not sleeping well, he hardly eats, and constantly pulling his ear. In children it might be harder to conclude what these symptoms can be exactly since they don’t really speak clearly to actually express what’s bothering them. Chronic otitis media is an inflammation or infection that lies behind the eardrum, it appears and disappears that’s why it’s considered chronic. Some symptoms of otitis media are: sleeplessness, ear pain which causes…

early life, whereas [hearing loss] was found to be related.” The only certain reason that a child’s language would continue to be affected by otitis media past early childhood is if the middle ear problems persist as the child grows. In these children, reading will still be impaired as long as the middle ear…

In the ear: custom made, two types, one fills the bowl shaped area of your outer ear and one fills only the lower part (half shell), for mild to severe hearing loss (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2014). Behind the ear: hooks over top of ear and rests behind the ear, has a tube connecting to the hearing aid to a custom earpiece that fits into the ear canal, for all ages and hearing loss (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2014). Receiver in canal or ear: similar to behind the ear except has a speaker or receiver…

from a loud object in all directions and that energy keeps moving through the air until it reaches your ears. That is when you then hear the noise of said loud object. The pinnae (the large outer flaps of your ears), gather all sounds coming from the different directions, they are shaped in a way that allows this. They then go on to channel the energy through into the ear canal. At the end of this ear canal is the eardrum. When the energy, also known as sound waves, hit the eardrum, they make it…

to medical therapy with corticosteroids to reduce cochlea hair cell swelling and inflammation to improve healing of these injured inner ear structures. Sensorineural hearing loss can occur from head trauma or abrupt changes in air pressure such as in airplane descent, which can cause inner ear fluid compartment rupture or leakage, which can be toxic to the inner ear. There has been variable success with emergency surgery when this happens. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss, presumed to be of…