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

NCT ID: NCT04449848

Last Updated: 2020-06-29

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 20 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-08-01
• Study Completion Date: 2021-07-31

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Sudden Hearing Loss

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Sitting after intra tympanic injection

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

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Sitting after intra tympanic injection

Intervention Type: OTHER

Sitting after intra tympanic injection

Interventions

Sitting after intra tympanic injection

Sitting after intra tympanic injection

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Central Contacts

Yahav Oron, MD

Role: CONTACT

oron.yahav@gmail.com

+97236973573

Other Identifiers

0182-20

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id