Hearing care professionals are meeting more and more tinnitus patients in their practice every day. An audiologist meeting a patient complaining of tinnitus needs to identify and quantify the subjective symptom. This is necessary both to establish the clinical type of tinnitus and to recommend the correct instrumentation to manage the tinnitus. This paper reviews the reasons for conducting a tinnitus evaluation and describes how a tinnitus evaluation can be enhanced using the psychoacoustic measurements and the tinnitus questionnaires available in the MADSEN Astera2 audiometer
Product manager and audiologist for hearing assessment at GN Otometrics. Throughout his education and career, Mr. Sanchez has had special focus on tinnitus and tinnitus assessment. Prior to joining Otometrics, Mr. Sanchez was a practicing audiologist and the product specialist for companies such as the Temporal Bone Foundation in Brussels, Belgium, a hearing aid dispensing chain in France, and GN ReSound. He holds a specialized degree in newborn audiology from the Medicine School of Bordeaux and a Master’s degree in audiology from the Pharmacy School of Lyon.
Audiology development manager at Audiology Systems Inc. Prior to joining the company, Dr. Switalski owned a private audiology practice in metro-Detroit and served as a consultant to Otometrics, a leading manufacturer of hearing and balance equipment. She currently provides quarterly audiology care for the South Pacific territory of American Samoa. Dr. Switalski holds a master’s degree in audiology from the University of Northern Colorado, an M.B.A. from Saginaw Valley State University, and a doctor of audiology degree from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry School of Audiology.
