title: Utilization of a central auditory processing test battery in evaluating residual effects of decompression sickness.
abstract: Six professional divers were examined as patients who presented peripheral auditory, vestibular, or central symptoms attributed to incidents which occurred while diving. Each diver received a central auditory processing (CAP) test battery consisting of: (1) a dichotic sentence listening task, (2) a monotic filtered word task, (3) a binaural fusion task, and (4) an alternating speech task. The CAP test results, in all cases substantiated other neurological/vestibular test battery results which we have reported in detail previously.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002493:Central Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D003665:Decompression Sickness / Q000150:complications*; D004242:Diving; D006320:Hearing Tests; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014725:Vestibular Nerve; D000160:Vestibulocochlear Nerve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology