Contraindications - Interacoustics Eclipse EP15 Instructions For Use Manual

1.2.3 Contraindications

Contraindications to place the stimuli transducer in/on a patient's ear include a discharging ear, acute
external auditory canal trauma, discomfort (e.g. severe otitis externa) or occlusion of the external auditory
canal. Testing should not be performed on patients with such symptoms without a medical doctor's
approval.
Testing VEMP, patients with neck, muscular and cervical injury problems should not perform the VEMP
test. Furthermore patient with conductive hearing loss, patients whose sternocleidomastoid muscle is too
difficult to locate. For oVEMP testing, total blindness and patients with exenteration (removal of the eye and
extraocular muscles) should not be tested.
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