Intended Use - Madsen zodiac Reference Manual

• Reflex Threshold (Diagnostic, Clinical)
• Reflex Decay (Diagnostic, Clinical)
• ETF-I (Eustachian Tube Function - Intact) (Diagnostic, Clinical)
• ETF-P (Eustachian Tube Function - Perforated) (Clinical)
• Admittance Recording (multiple uses, e.g. patulous Eustachian Tube evaluation, acoustic reflexes with external stim-
ulus) (Diagnostic, Clinical)
• Manual Tympanometry (Diagnostic, Clinical)
• Viewing tympanogram history (Diagnostic, Clinical)
MADSEN Zodiac - OTOsuite interfacing
MADSEN Zodiac is designed to operate with the OTOsuite Immittance module. From the OTOsuite Immittance module,
which is NOAH compatible, you can perform tests, monitor test results, create User Tests, store and export data, and print
reports.
General features
Depending on the configuration of MADSEN Zodiac and the Immittance module, you can
• perform a range of immittance tests
• view the progression of the tests online
• view and print test results
• view historic tympanometry results
• upload test results from tests performed while Zodiac was offline.
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Intended use

MADSEN Zodiac is an auditory impedance tester that is intended to change the air pressure in the external auditory canal
and measure and graph the mobility characteristics of the tympanic membrane to evaluate the functional condition of the
middle ear. This device is also used to measure the acoustic reflex threshold and decay testing as well as Eustachian tube
function testing for intact and perforated tympanic membranes.
Users: audiologists, ENTs and other health care professionals in testing the hearing of infants, children and adults.
Use: clinical, diagnostic and screening tympanometry and reflex measurements.
MADSEN Zodiac uses technologies which are highly effective for clinical and screening purposes. Tympanometry and acous-
tic reflex measurements measure the mechanical response of the middle ear and form a basis for evaluating whether the
related physiological structures are functioning correctly or not.
Contraindications
Warning
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ured results are kept.
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of the outer ear before you insert the probe. If the ear canal is blocked, this may affect the result of the test.
Otometrics - MADSEN Zodiac
If the patient is troubled by the test, stop the test. The test is interrupted immediately. Already meas-
Look into the ear canal. It is strongly recommended that you perform an otoscopy to assess the status
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