The Effect of Patient's Position After Intra-tympanic Injection

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Sudden Hearing Loss

Treatments: Other: Change of posture after Intra Tympanic injection

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04384640

0182-20-TLVMC

Details and patient eligibility

About

The effect of the patient's head on the leakage of steroids from the middle ear to the throat will be studied. The patients will be seated after one of the intra tympanic injections that are routonely performed due to Sudden Sensorineural Hearin Loss (SNHL). The patients will be asked if they taste the steroids in their throats.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients diagnosed with Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss, treated using intra-tympanic injection of steroids
• Patients who signed an informed consent form

Exclusion criteria

• Dysgeusia
• Inner or middle ear malfomation
• Eustachian tube dysfunction

Trial design

20 participants in 1 patient group

Patients seated after Intra-Tympanic injection

Treatment:

Other: Change of posture after Intra Tympanic injection