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Noise-induced hearing loss and distortion product otoacoustic emissions: Two ex...
Escada, Pedro Alberto; Madeira da Silva, JoséThis paper describes two case reports of patients with noiseinduced hearing loss: the first was caused by the repeated exposure to skeet shooting sports; in the second case the hearing loss was caused by using a oral jet irrigator for removal of cerumen of the external auditory canal.In both cases, the evaluation with otoacoustic emissions added diagnostic information to conventional audiometry: in the case of ...
Self-assessment of the singing voice. State of the art and required investigations
Capucho, Clara; Escada, Pedro Alberto; Madeira da Silva, JoséThe purpose of this paper is to review the medical literature in the topic of the self-assessment of singing voice, describe the instruments that have been used for this purpose, describe the process of their creation and validation and point out topics of research needed in this area in Portugal.Traditionally, the evaluation of the disease or the assessments of the treatment outcomes were based in clinical obs...
ENT medical therapeutics in Portugal and doping
Cavilhas, Pedro; Pereira, Sílvia Paulino; Oliveira, Filipa S.; Henriques, Pedro Gonçalves; Reis, Luís Roque; Madeira da Silva, JoséObjectives: Revision of substances and methods considered doping in the year of 2010 with identification of active principles commercialized in Portugal (made available by Infarmed - the Portuguese drug authority) and eventually used in ENT speciality and revision of the procedures to be taken by the ENT specialist in case of prescription to athletes.Materials and methods: Literature review.Results: Drugs impor...