The Effect of Patient's Position After Intra-tympanic Injection on the Amount of Fluid in the Middle Ear

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Sudden Hearing Loss

Treatments: Other: Sitting after intra tympanic injection

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04449848

0182-20

Details and patient eligibility

About

During the regular protocol of Intra-tympanic injections of Dexamethasone to the middle ear due to Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss, the patients will be sitted once after the injection instead of lying down. They will be then asked to rate their taste as a reference to the amount of fluid leaking to the throat through the eustachian tube.

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 to the middle ear

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with abnormal sense of taste
• Middle or inner ear anomaly
• Eustachian tube dysfunction

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Sitting after intra tympanic injection

Experimental group

Description:

Patients with Sudden hearing loss sitting after intra tympanic injection of steroids

Treatment:

Other: Sitting after intra tympanic injection