product (DP), distortion-product “audiogram” (DP-gram), distortion-product OAE (DPOAE), fine structure, fast Fourier transform (FFT), input/output (I/O), inverse FFT (IFFT), magnitude and phase, medial olivocochlear (MOC), otoacoustic emissions (OAE), outer hair cell (OHC), polar plot, reflection, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), spontaneous OAE (SOAE), stimulus-frequency OAE (SFOAE), transient-evo...

BACKGROUND Recently, several epidemiological studies performed in Onchocerca volvulus-endemic regions have suggested that onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy (OAE) may constitute an important but neglected public health problem in many countries where onchocerciasis is still endemic. MAIN TEXT On October 12-14th 2017, the first international workshop on onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy (OAE)...

This paper presents research into using otoacoustic emissions (OAE) as a biometric. OAE are a group of sounds emitted by the cochlea of the ear. The main types are spontaneous OAE which are continuously emitted and the transient and distortion product types which are emitted after stimulation. In this paper the characteristics of OAE are examined to determine the most suitable emission for use ...

Background: otoacoustic emissions (OAE) are considered the main instrument of the Newborn Hearing Screening Program (NHSP). Aim: to analyze the OAE of newborns evaluated in the NHSP. Method: transient evoked OAE recordings were captured in 1000 infants. The data were analyzed using the analysis of multivaried variance (Manova). Results: reference tables were calculated for the over all OAE leve...

BACKGROUND Neonatal hearing screening occasionally fails. We noticed that infants born by cesarean delivery (CD) appeared to fail the first otoacoustic emissions (OAE) test more frequently than infants delivered vaginally (VD). This might increase maternal anxiety. We aimed to evaluate the influence of mode of delivery on failure to pass the first OAE. METHODS Overall, 1653 infants of >35 wee...

Open access endoscopy (OAE) is widely used in many hospitals. The aim of this study was to compare the upper gastrointestinal endoscopies referred to as "OGDs" performed under the OAE service and those referred from hospital outpatient clinics (HR) during the initial year in which an OAE service was provided in a district general hospital. A retrospective review of medical records from all pati...

BACKGROUND A medical intervention is a medical procedure or application intended to relieve or prevent illness or injury. Examples of medical interventions include vaccination and drug administration. After a medical intervention, adverse events (AEs) may occur which lie outside the intended consequences of the intervention. The representation and analysis of AEs are critical to the improvement...

BACKGROUND In 2009, the Chinese Ministry of Health recommended scale-up of routine neonatal hearing screening - previously performed primarily only in select urban hospitals - throughout the entire country. METHODS A decision analytical model for a simulated population of all live births in china was developed to compare the costs and health effects of five mutually exclusive interventions: 1...

With the rapid implementation of universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) programs, a test of middle-ear function for infants is urgently needed. Recent evidence suggests that 1 kHz tympanometry may be effective. Normative data are presented for newborn intensive care unit (NICU) graduates tested at a mean age of 3.9 weeks (Study 1) and full-term infants tested at 2-4 weeks (Study 2) who pass...

The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE) was characterized by a major disturbance to the global carbon(C)-cycle, and depleted oxygen in Earth's oceans resulting in marine mass extinction. Numerical models predict that increased organic carbon burial should drive a rise in atmospheric oxygen (pO2) leading to termination of an OAE after ∼1 Myr. Wildfire is highly responsive to changes in pO2 imp...