Today, audiology in an integrated part of otology. Starting from newborn screening, audiometric evaluation of congenital hearing loss, diagnosis of OME in children, follow up of middle ear effusion, to evaluation of middle ear function and hearing thresholds in conductive deafness, fitting of hearing aids, evaluation and diagnosis of retro cochlear pathology to more sophisticated applications like middle ear, inner ear and brainstem implants, it is imperative that an ENT surgeon has more than a cursory knowledge of audiometry. Quality of audiometric services varies greatly in this country.
You have sophisticated, very advanced centers which are in par with the best in the east, to run of the mill clinics working with poor equipment in a shoddy environment. But in the diaspora of the economic framework of the nation, both are probably contributory to the health status of the country and…
