The Effect of Patient's Position After Intra-tympanic Injection

• Conditions: Sudden Hearing Loss
• Interventions: Other: Change of posture after Intra Tympanic injection

• Registration Number: NCT04384640
• Lead Sponsor: Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Brief Summary

The effect of the patient's head on the leakage of steroids from the middle ear to the throat will be studied. The patients will be seated after one of the intra tympanic injections that are routonely performed due to Sudden Sensorineural Hearin Loss (SNHL). The patients will be asked if they taste the steroids in their throats.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2020-05
• Study First Submitted: 2020-05-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-05-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-05-08
• Study First Posted: 2020-05-12
• Last Update Posted: 2020-05-12
• Study Start: 2020-07-01
• Primary Completion: 2021-06-30
• Study Completion: 2021-06-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients diagnosed with Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss, treated using intra-tympanic injection of steroids
• Patients who signed an informed consent form

Exclusion Criteria

• Dysgeusia
• Inner or middle ear malfomation
• Eustachian tube dysfunction

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Patients seated after Intra-Tympanic injection	Change of posture after Intra Tympanic injection	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Degree of taste	0 Minutes, and then 10, 20, 30 minutes after the injection	The patients will rate the degree of change of taste in their throat