Discipline: Audiology
Topic: Hearing loss in children with Cystic Fibrosis.
Question: Please perform a literature review on the strategies that would detect and manage hearing loss in children with Cystic Fibrosis. Your literature review should identify potential gaps in the research and conclude by proposing an aim and research question for a hypothetical research project, which is logically drawn from the literature.
Stimulus papers:
Al-Malky, G., Dawson, S.J., Sirimanna, T., Bagkeris, E. & Suri, R. (2015). High-frequency audiometry reveals high prevalence of aminoglycoside ototoxicity in children with cystic fibrosis. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 14(2), 248-254.
Tarshish, Y., Huang, L., Jackson, F.I., Edwards, J., Fligor, B., Wilkins, A., Uluer, A., Sawicki, G., Kenna, M. (2016). Risk factors for hearing loss in patients with cystic fibrosis. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 27(1), 6-12.