View Tag: ‘RECD’
Volume 12
My Patient Has An Open Vent In Their Earmold and I Plan To Measure Their Earmold RECD and Then Fit the Hearing Aid In the Test Box. Should I Leave The Vent Open?
by Susan Scollie, PhD
Probably not. When you put the earmold on for the RECD, the sound will be entering the ear through the earmold tubing. Some will leak out through the vent, but no test signal will come in. That means the RECD only captures one of the two vent paths.
Volume 6
Real Ear to Coupler Difference (RECD) Corrected Thresholds in Children: How Accurate is the Standard Audiogram Results?
by Paul Hong, MD, MSc
Michel Comeau, MSc
Steve Aiken, PhD
Paul Hong and colleagues explore the increased recognition that the standard audiogram is not always the most accurate method of measuring true levels of hearing.