An Interactive Online Resource

Last updated Februrary 2025

The journey to a diagnosis isn’t always straightforward. It’s a careful exploration of every possibility.

Navigating the complexities of diagnosis
Unraveling symptoms to uncover the root cause
Leveraging data and expertise for accurate conclusions

This toolbox is a gateway to streamlined diagnostics, informed decision-making, and an expanded knowledge of medical audiology.

<aside> <img src="/icons/cursor-click_orange.svg" alt="/icons/cursor-click_orange.svg" width="40px" /> Use the Interactive Flow Charts to navigate hearing evaluations with confidence—interactive flow charts to guide your questions, tests, and clinical decisions.

Interactive Flow Charts

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Use the Interactive Symptom Profiler is an Excel-based tool designed to help you efficiently identify potential medical conditions based on reported symptoms. Quickly compare them against a database of conditions and receive a ranked list of the most likely matches.

Interactive Symptom Profiler

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<aside> <img src="/icons/archive_red.svg" alt="/icons/archive_red.svg" width="40px" /> Use the Condition Profiles searchable database to enhance learning by serving as a centralized audiology-specific educational resource.

Condition Profiles

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Use the Glossary: Signs and Symptoms as an organized reference tool designed to help you quickly understand the various signs and symptoms. Each entry is accompanied by a brief description explaining what the sign or symptom may indicate within the context of its associated condition profile.

Glossary: Signs & Symptom

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Interactive Flow Charts

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This interactive flow chart is designed to streamline the process of gathering detailed and relevant patient information, ensuring you don’t miss any critical details during the case history interview.

It guides you through a series of targeted questions across several categories, including hearing difficulties, medical and surgical history, family history of hearing loss, noise exposure, and communication challenges. As you input patient responses, the flow chart offers insights into potential underlying conditions, suggests areas that may require further exploration, and highlights red flags that warrant additional testing.

It will alert you when patient responses indicate the need for a referral to an ENT, such as signs of sudden hearing loss, dizziness, otalgia, or other medical concerns requiring further evaluation.

By following this structured approach, you can develop a clearer picture of the patient's symptoms, their onset, and progression, which is essential for tailoring your diagnostic plan and providing optimal care.

Cick here to head over to the flow charts →

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Word Doc. file available here ↓

Hearing Eval. Case History Flow Chart.docx

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Word Doc. file available here ↓

Hearing Eval. Diagnostic Flow Chart.docx

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Condition Profiles

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This interactive flow chart provides a comprehensive guide through the diagnostic evaluation process, ensuring a systematic and thorough approach to assessing auditory function.

It walks you through each stage of testing, from pure-tone audiometry and speech recognition assessments to tympanometry, acoustic reflex testing, and otoacoustic emissions.

As you proceed through each step, the flow chart offers detailed explanations of expected outcomes, prompts you to compare findings against normative data, and helps you recognize patterns that may indicate specific types of hearing loss, such as conductive, sensorineural, or mixed.

It also includes built-in alerts to notify you when test results indicate the need for an ENT referral, such as asymmetric hearing loss, unexplained conductive loss, signs of retrocochlear pathology, or persistent middle ear issues.

By following this structured pathway, you can enhance your diagnostic accuracy, ensure consistency across evaluations, and provide evidence-based recommendations for further management or treatment.

Cick here to head over to the database →

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