Treatments for Hearing Impairment

Treatments for Hearing Impairment

The list of treatments mentioned in various sources for Hearing Impairment includes the following list. Always seek professional medical advice about any treatment or change in treatment plans.

• Cochlear Implant
• Hearing aid In The Ear (ITE)
• Hearing aid Behind The Ear (BTE)
• Canal Aids
• Body Aids

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Hospital statistics for Hearing Impairment:

These medical statistics relate to hospitals, hospitalization and Hearing Impairment:

• 0.014% (1,787) of hospital consultant episodes were for conductive and sensorineural hearing loss in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 100% of hospital consultant episodes for conductive and sensorineural hearing loss required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 51% of hospital consultant episodes for conductive and sensorineural hearing loss were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 49% of hospital consultant episodes for conductive and sensorineural hearing loss were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Hospitals & Medical Clinics: Hearing Impairment

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Choosing the Best Treatment Hospital: More general information, not necessarily in relation to Hearing Impairment, on hospital and medical facility performance and surgical care quality:

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Medical news summaries about treatments for Hearing Impairment:

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Book Excerpts: Treatment of Hearing Impairment

• Treatment - Hearing Loss
• Treatment - Tinnitus
• Treatment - Tinnitus
• Treatment - Hearing Loss – Acquired
• Treatment - Hearing Loss – Congenital
• Treatment - Hearing loss
• Patient counseling - Hearing loss
• Patient counseling - Tinnitus
• Treatment - Hearing loss
• Patient counseling - Hearing loss
• Patient counseling - Tinnitus
• Nursing considerations - Hearing loss
• Nursing considerations - Tinnitus

Treatments of Hearing Impairment: Online Medical Books

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Hearing Loss: Treatment
(In a Page: Signs and Symptoms)

• In many cases, the physical exam is therapeutic, because it involves cleaning the ear canal
• For middle ear effusions, a course of antibiotics and observation is usually sufficient; if symptoms persist, myringotomy and tube placement may be indicated
• Hearing aids are helpful for most cases of conductive or sensorineural hearing loss
• Middle ear implantable devices for moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss
• Cochlear implants may be indicated for severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss if hearing aids are of minimal or no benefit
• Reconstructive middle ear surgery may be necessary, and includes tympanoplasty and stapedectomy
• Prevention of additional hearing loss by ear protection

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Source: In a Page: Signs and Symptoms, 2004

Tinnitus: Treatment
(In a Page: Signs and Symptoms)

• Treat underlying cause if possible
• Discontinue ototoxic medications
• Presbycusis: Hearing aids
• Tinnitus retraining therapy may reduce tinnitus by habituation training
• Masking devices may be used to create a low level sound to decrease or eliminate perceived tinnitus
• Biofeedback or stress reduction may be useful, because tolerance to tinnitus decreases with stress and fatigue
• Surgery to correct conductive defect with outer or middle ear disease or to remove tumors
• Cochlear implants are indicated for severe hearing loss in patients that do not benefit from hearing aids
• Botulinum toxin injection is used for myoclonus of palatal muscles
• Treat underlying depression and insomnia if present

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Source: In a Page: Signs and Symptoms, 2004

Tinnitus: Treatment
(In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms)

• Treat underlying cause; treat underlying depression and insomnia; benzodiazepines may be helpful in depression
• Refer to ENT or neurotologist for vascular etiology
• Stop ototoxic medications
• Tinnitus retraining therapy can reduce tinnitus by habituation training
• Masking devices: Low-level sound to decrease or eliminate tinnitus
• Biofeedback/stress reduction
• Surgery: Correct conductive defect with outer or middle ear disease, remove tumor
• Hearing aids: Presbycusis; cochlear implants: Severe hearing loss, not benefiting from hearing aids
• Botulinum toxin injection: Myoclonus of palatal muscles
• Many medications treat tinnitus, yet none has proven very effective in double-blind placebo controlled trials without significant side effects

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Source: In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms, 2007

Hearing Loss – Acquired: Treatment
(In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms)

• Cerumen removal
• Tympanostomy tube placement for chronic MEE lasting >3 months if bilateral, >6 months if unilateral
• Tympanoplasty for TM perforation
• Tympanomastoidectomy for cholesteatoma
  –Effort to keep external auditory canal wall intact, with second look procedure planned for 6 months later
• Ossicular chain reconstruction (OCR, ossiculoplasty) with prosthesis or incus graft for ossicular anomalies
  –Including after cholesteatoma resection
• Exploratory tympanotomy for suspected PLF
  –If present, seal off oval and round windows
• Resection of CPA tumor
• Steroids for autoimmune SNHL (systemic or intratympanic)
• Cochlear implants for profound pre- or postlingual deafness
• Habilitation of any post-treatment hearing loss

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Source: In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms, 2007

Hearing Loss – Congenital: Treatment
(In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms)

• Identify children with hearing loss early
• Treat medically treatable cause, if any
  –Syphilis (steroids and penicillin), Lyme disease, toxoplasmosis, hypercholesterolemia
• Intravenous gancyclovir for congenital CMV
• Habilitate by age 6 months if possible
  –Amplification
  –Bone-anchored hearing aids
  –Tympanostomy tube placement
  –Middle ear reconstruction
  –Perilymphatic fistula closure
  –Cochlear implant (after age 12 months)
• Periodic follow-up necessary
  –Ensure auditory habilitation is working
  –Check for hearing loss progression

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Source: In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms, 2007

Hearing loss: Treatment
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))

After the underlying cause is identified, therapy for congenital hearing loss refractory to surgery consists of developing the patient’s ability to communicate through sign language, speech reading, or other effective means. Measures to prevent congenital hearing loss include aggressively immunizing children against rubella to reduce the risk of maternal exposure during pregnancy; educating pregnant women about the dangers of exposure to drugs, chemicals, or infection; and careful monitoring during labor and delivery to prevent fetal anoxia.

Treatment for sudden deafness requires prompt identification of the underlying cause. Prevention necessitates educating patients and health care professionals about the many causes of sudden deafness and the ways to recognize and treat them.

Hyperbilirubinemia can be controlled by phototherapy and exchange transfusions. Children need the appropriate immunizations. Medications that may be ototoxic should be used judiciously in children and monitored closely. Reduction of exposure to loud noises generally prevents high-frequency hearing loss.

In people with noise-induced hearing loss, overnight rest usually restores normal hearing in those who have been exposed to noise levels greater than 90 dB for several hours; but not in those who have been exposed to such noise repeatedly. As hearing deteriorates, treatment must include speech and hearing rehabilitation, because hearing aids are seldom helpful. Prevention of noise-induced hearing loss requires public recognition of the dangers of noise exposure and insistence on the use, as mandated by law, of protective devices such as earplugs during occupational exposure to noise.

Amplifying sound, as with a hearing aid, helps some patients with presbycusis, but many patients have an intolerance to loud noise and wouldn’t be helped by a hearing aid.

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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005

Hearing loss: Patient counseling
(Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition))

Instruct the patient to avoid exposure to loud noise and to use ear protection to arrest hearing loss. If the patient has an upper respiratory tract infection, tell him to avoid flying and driving.

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Source: Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition), 2006

Tinnitus: Patient counseling
(Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition))

Advise the patient to avoid exposure to excessive noise, ototoxic agents, and other factors that may cause cochlear damage. Inform him that even people with normal hearing may experience intermittent periods of mild, high-pitched tinnitus that can last for several minutes.

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Source: Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition), 2006

Hearing loss: Treatment
(Handbook of Diseases)

Measures for treating each type of hearing loss vary.

Congenital hearing loss

After identifying the underlying cause, therapy for congenital hearing loss refractory to surgery consists of developing the patient’s ability to communicate through sign language, speech reading, or other effective means.

Measures to prevent congenital hearing loss include aggressively immunizing children against rubella to reduce the risk of maternal exposure during pregnancy; educating pregnant women about the dangers of exposure to drugs, chemicals, or infection; and careful monitoring of the fetus during labor and delivery to prevent fetal anoxia.

Sudden hearing loss

Treatment of sudden hearing loss requires prompt identification of the underlying cause. Prevention requires educating patients and health care professionals about the many causes of sudden hearing loss and the ways to recognize and treat them.

Noise-induced hearing loss

Overnight rest usually restores normal hearing in those who have been exposed to noise levels greater than 90 dB for several hours but not in those who have been exposed to such noise repeatedly. As hearing deteriorates, treatment must include speech and hearing rehabilitation because hearing aids are seldom helpful.

Prevention of noise-induced hearing loss requires public recognition of the dangers of noise exposure and insistence on the use, as mandated by law, of protective devices, such as earplugs, during occupational exposure to noise.

Presbycusis

Patients with presbycusis usually require a hearing aid.

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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003

Hearing loss: Patient counseling
(Signs & Symptoms: A 2-in-1 Reference for Nurses)

Instruct the patient to avoid exposure to loud noise and to use ear protection to arrest loss. If the patient has an upper respiratory tract infection, tell him to avoid flying and driving. Explain the importance of completing the full course of prescribed antibiotics.

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Source: Signs & Symptoms: A 2-in-1 Reference for Nurses, 2007

Tinnitus: Patient counseling
(Signs & Symptoms: A 2-in-1 Reference for Nurses)

Advise the patient to avoid further exposure to excessive noise, ototoxic agents, and other factors that may cause cochlear damage. Inform him that even people with normal hearing may experience intermittent periods of mild, high-pitched tinnitus that can last for several minutes.

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Source: Signs & Symptoms: A 2-in-1 Reference for Nurses, 2007

Hearing loss: Nursing considerations
(Nursing: Interpreting Signs and Symptoms)

▪ When talking with the patient, remember to face him and speak slowly.

▪ Don't shout, smoke, eat, or chew gum when talking.

▪ Prepare the patient for audiometry and auditory evoked-response testing.

▪ Provide an alternate means of communication, if necessary.

Patient teaching

▪ Explain interventions to the patient, such as a hearing aid or cochlear implant to improve his hearing.

▪ Discuss the importance of ear protection and avoidance of loud noise.

▪ Stress the importance of following instructions for taking prescribed antibiotics.

▪ Explain the underlying cause of the hearing loss and its treatment.

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Source: Nursing: Interpreting Signs and Symptoms, 2007

Tinnitus: Nursing considerations
(Nursing: Interpreting Signs and Symptoms)

▪ Treat the underlying disorder.

▪ Have the patient use a hearing aid, as prescribed, to amplify environmental sounds, thereby obscuring tinnitus.

Patient teaching

▪ Explain the underlying disorder and treatment plan.

▪ Educate the patient about strategies for adapting to the tinnitus, including biofeedback and masking devices.

▪ Provide information about avoiding excessive noise, ototoxic agents, and other factors that may cause cochlear damage.

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Source: Nursing: Interpreting Signs and Symptoms, 2007

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