Status:

WITHDRAWN

Hearing Changes After Surgery

Lead Sponsor:

Gateway Biotechnology, Inc.

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

University of Pittsburgh

Conditions:

Hearing Loss

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to measure the potential effects of surgical drilling noise and/or vibration exposure on the hearing in the ear contralateral to the surgical site during skull-based surge...

Detailed Description

High-speed drills that are capable of producing elevated levels are used during skull based surgeries (Hilmi et al., 2011; Yu et al., 2014). Recently, it has been shown that surgical drilling may have...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • participants are undergoing a skull-based or mastoid surgery for treatment of an affected ear
  • participants have normal or near-normal hearing thresholds in the un-operated ear

Exclusion

  • participants have hearing loss (PTA \> 40 dB HL) in pure tone audiometry testing before surgery in the un-operated ear
  • participants have medical conditions after the surgery which prevents having hearing tests
  • participants have abnormal tympanometric results

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

September 1 2021

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

February 28 2022

Estimated Enrollment :

Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04322747

Start Date

September 1 2021

End Date

February 28 2022

Last Update

August 9 2022

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UPMC Presbyterian

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213