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 Roll up your sleeves: (Hands-on) REM basics 

The verification of hearing aid fittings is conducted to ensure that their gain and output are correct. Each hearing instrument programming can only be verified employing Real-Ear Measurement (REM), adjusting the sound measurements just in front of the tympanic membrane via the REM probe measurement tube, using validated prescriptive targets displayed via a probe microphone system, matching the output to these targets using a calibrated input signal (e.g. ISTS) delivered at soft, medium and loud levels.

REM should not be viewed as being overly technically difficul: it’s not that hard!
To feel more comfortable, we need lean into our gear, get to know it, roll up our sleeves and try things out!

Last October 26th, Clayton Fisher, clinical audiologist and audiology consultant and owner of Treat Hearing Health Care, managed the webinar "Roll up your sleeves: (Hands-on) REM basics with CARL”. 

During the course, the speaker provided pragmatic tips-and-tricks for learning the basic, hands-on techniques and skills required to become competent and confident in performing and interpreting REM. Clayton demonstrates these essential REM procedures by performing a complete hearing aid fitting on audiology simulator CARL, using our Trumpet REM system.

Let yourself be guided in a hearing aid fitting session!
Watch the webinar “Roll up your sleeves: (Hands-on) REM basics with CARL” published on Inventis Partner Pages in Audiologyonline! 

After this course, participants will be able to:

• feel more comfortable with the Trumpet and Maestro software
• feel more comfortable with calibration and techniques needed to ensure accuracy
• feel comfortable interpreting REM results and fitting data and improving upon it

Start a friendship with your REM system. It will last a lifetime!

 IFOS: what an adventure! 

From January 17-21, we participated in IFOS, the ENT World Congress, in Dubai.

The congress brought together more than 6,000 experts from all over the world thanks also to a rich scientific program. It was definitely a great success, including for us, since we had the opportunity to show the new  Maestro Control Panel , give demos of our balance equipment and meet our partners of the area.

In addition, Dr. Armato, who was also a speaker at IFOS, was invited by our UAE partner, Al-Shomoukh Trading for Technical & Medical Supplies Co. to give a private training on SYNAPSYS VHIT focusing on more clinical aspects to 30 invited professionals from the UAE and Palestine.

The presentation lasted more than two hours with great active participation and many questions directed to the doctor, who concluded by giving everyone a copy of his book entitled "The Video Head Impulse Test."

Year 2022 was for us a year of satisfaction and achievements, of innovation and passion. 
We made sure that all of you could see this with your own eyes, and thus understand what characterises Inventis: starting in January, we had the incredible opportunity to travel the world, attending several events in different Countries! 

From Abu Dhabi to Paris, from St. Louis to Madrid and then Orlando, San Antonio, Hannover and Boca Raton... We are delighted to be back on the road again and to meet you in person!

Here are some of the events at which Inventis was present: 
    • EROC 2022 
    • 42e Congrès des audioprothésistes 
    • AAA 2022 + HearTECH Expo 
    • XXXI Bárány Society Meeting 
    • 2022 FLAA Convention 
    • IHS 71st Annual Convention & Expo 
    • 66th International EUHA Congress 

A 2023 full of incredible surprises awaits us, are you ready to discover them with us in the upcoming events?

The 2022 edition of Academia has come to an end. It has been a hugely successful edition, that has given us countless satisfactions. 

Figures confirm the success of the initiative:

• 28 scientific events in Italian, English and French
• more than 4,000 registered people
• more than 20,000 hours of training
• 92% interest rate

The webinar calendar for this 2022 has been full of events which have seen, as speakers, respected professionals in the hearing and vestibular field. 

Thank you all for showing such great interest and helping to make this year of Academia unique! 

Waiting to present you the calendar for 2023, here is the Academia 2022 video: 

Go to the video

Enjoy watching! 

66th Inter­na­tional EUHA Congress 2022
Hannover, October 12-14, 2022

The 66th Inter­na­tional EUHA Congress 2022 and the industrial exhibition will take place from October 12 to 14 in the state-of-the-art Convention Center (CC) of Deutsche Messe, Hannover, Germany.

The EUHA International Congress is one of the most awaited events for hearing care professionals, as it represents a moment of gathering and exchange of ideas, as well as a unique opportunity to learn about the latest innovations in this field.
The congress programme includes a wide range of topics, including the latest medical and audiological advances and strategies to improve hearing aid fitting.

On this occasion, we will be at the forefront showing you our innovative audiological portfolio in a completely new way.
At booth number 210, an 8-step tour will guide you through the state-of-the-art Inventis equipment:

• starting with screening devices, easy to use and portable; 
• continuing with our diagnostics devices, designed for the most demanding professionals; 
• you will then enter the world of balance, filled with innovation; 
• in the following step you will get to know an incredible news regarding one of our amazing devices; 
• to continue you will find the devices for the perfect fitting. 

To conclude this tour, you will experience  a full immersion in two Inventis software solutions and in our educational programme: 

• Satellite, our innovative tele-audiology solution; 
• Symphonia, the software for the creation of virtual sound environments, 
• Academia, Inventis' educational programme with the aim of sharing knowledge within the audiology and balance fields. 

Discover a piece of Inventis portfolio at each of these steps!  

Do not miss the opportunity to get to know our unique audiological equipment, to experience the potential of tele-medicine first-hand, or to enter a world of virtual sound environment!

Book your session!

We look forward to seeing you at booth #210!

The purpose of hearing aid verification is to verify that the appropriate gain/output is being achieved.

The validation of the verification process is also paramount to ensure that the end user obtains what they wanted or required, not only in terms of addressing audibility and intelligibility but also in terms of their perception of loudness.

The Inventis Trumpet is an advanced Real Ear Measurement system but also a diagnostic audiometer!

The best combination unit in terms of portability, convenience and size!

Controlled through Maestro software interface, it has never been so easy to do verification and then validation running QSIN via free field using the Trumpet built-in amplified speaker!

Browse Maestro!

1. Do the QSIN via free field!
2. Fit the hearing aid using REM! 
3. Conduct a post QSIN to show improvement!

Check our Inventis Trumpet and Maestro software on this website! 

XXXI Barany Society Meeting
Madrid, May 9-11, 2022

From May 9 to 11 we will be exhibiting at XXXI Barany Society MEETING at booth #1!

Here are some small previews of the talks that will be held at our booth:

• Dr. Andrea Castellucci • Selective canal impairment on video-HIT in peripheral vestibular diseases
• Dr. Enrico Armato • The video Head Impulse Test and its role in the daily practice of a neurotologist

Those who come to our stand will also have the unmissable opportunity to receive a free copy of the book "The Video Head Impulse Test" and to meet the author, Dr. Enrico Armato!

Reserve your book now

See you there!

Speech communication is one of the most important aspects of the human auditory system. Therefore, the diagnostics and rehabilitation of hearing loss should include speech audiometry in noise.

Purpose of the Matrix Test is to find the signal/noise ratio (SNR) that allows the patient to understand 50% of the words (SRT, Speech Recognition Threshold). That is done through a guided, automatic, simple and repeatable procedure.

Oldenburg International Matrix Test is now available with Inventis Trumpet!
Connect your Trumpet AUD to your computer, select the patient from Maestro database or Noah and launch the Matrix Test.

The patient is asked to repeat sentences of 5 random words, presented with a background noise, and generated starting from a matrix with 10 subjects, 10 verbs, 10 numerical adjectives, 10 object complements, 10 qualifying adjectives. This way, up to 100,000 different sentences can be generated which makes it impossible to memorize them.

The examiner marks on the screen what words have been correctly heard by the patient and the software then adapt automatically the SNR of the next sentence accordingly. 
Therefore, the examiner does not have to speak or understand the patient’s native language to score the test!  

The complete exam includes 20 sentences and can be managed through:

• supraural headphones (TDH 39, DD45)
• insertion headphones (ER-3C)
• Trumpet integrated speaker
• up to 3 external (passive) speakers connected to the Trumpet, usable 2 at a time

At the end of the exam, the hearing care professional will have an indisputable data on his hand: the exact value of the patient's SRT, which is an objective value but nor always easily to measure with a standard speech test.

SRT = +5? the patient understands about 50% of words when the stimulus is 5 dB louder than the noise.
SRT = -2? the patient understands about 50% of words when the stimulus is 2 dB lower than the noise.
The lower the SRT value, the better the recognition of speech in noise will be.

Starting from the SRT value, the clinician will be able to identify the hearing aid more easily to be used for rehabilitation.

Currently, the Matrix Test is one of the most popular adaptive speech tests especially for evaluating the results obtained with hearing aids and cochlear implants. Its availability in over twenty different languages has made it possible to compare the results at an international level, thus making it a standard in the audiological prosthetic evaluation. 

MATRIX – KEY FEATURES

• relevant for daily life
• quick and reliable threshold measurement
• unlimited repeated measurements possible
• suitable for any degree of hearing loss
• wide language portfolio