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Clinical Auditory Evoked Potentials
Do you want to use Socrates to write a scientific paper ?read moreSOCRATES is a medical professional device that detects auditory evoked potentials, allowing to quickly obtain very accurate clinical diagnosis. The innovative and combined hardware and software functions, make SOCRATES able to meet the major operational challenges, such as noise and environmental myogenic artifacts, ensuring a higher diagnostc quality, and significantly reducing test execution time.
Featuring two independent channels, acoustic and visual alarms, SOCRATES also allows the facial nerve monitoring and diagnosis, for the highest safety and efficiency into intraoperative surgical sites.
The stylish design and easy of use, along with a complete and reliable software, make SOCRATES an indispensable tool for everyday clinical practices, as well as for scientific research.
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AVAILABLE TESTS
With SOCRATES you can run:
— ABR with every sort of possible stimulation, even arbirtrary, .wav format
— AABR available for all stimulus intensities
— MLR, LLR, 40Hz, R-C Alt
— C-Vemps e O-Vemps by air and bone conduction, including Biofeedback and Rectification
— ECochG, even not invasive
— E-ABR for cochlear implants
— P300, MMN, N1-P2, with the availability also of verbal arbirtrary stimuli
— ASSR (Auditory Steady Steate Response)
— FACIAL NERVE ENOG, Blink Reflex, Monitoring
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ACCURACY OF DIAGNOSIS
Thanks to Hedera Research and Development Team and the contribution of the University of Padova , it was possible to create a powerful algorithm for estimating the useful signal to the diagnosis, removing the major noise and disturbs, with significant advantages compared to conventional processing tools, such as:
— High speed of test execution, easy and comprehensible diagnostic results
— Increased immunity to motion and electrical artifacts in noisy environments
— Reduced need to sedate the less collaborative patient ( eg . Infants )
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FAST AND USER-FRIENDLY
With SOCRATES and the efficiency of the HELIX software you can easily perform tests, optimizing execution times, thanks to:
— Simplified interface, allowing you to take the test in a few clicks or via touch screen
— Impedance preamplifier led, to prepare the patient from the inside of a silent booth
— Preparation Wizard of the patient, using intuitive graphical interface
— Automation of the test. You can use test protocols to automatically perform tests with different intensities of stimulus or other selectable parameters, set the auto-start and auto-termination
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AC and BC O-VEMPs and C-VEMPs: CLEAR AND RELIABLE TESTS
With SOCRATES you can run VEMPs, reliably and easily, thanks to:
— Bio - feedback through digital LED and displayed waveform rectification, for a realistic comparison between the IPSI and CONTRAlateral amplitudes
— Integrated amplifier for Bone Vibrators and BC dedicated output, for a greater saving in terms of cost and space, and for a test without interruptions
— Tuning Curve and AR(%), indispensable in the vestibular diagnostic applications
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EASY AND NON-INVASIVE ELECTROCOCHLEOGRAPHY
With SOCRATES you can perform an important test as the electrocochleography so fastly, accurately and non-invasively, thanks to the quality of the processing algorithms and the use of the supplied TM Wick electrode, by Prof. D. Lilly, with the following advantages:
— Ability to perform the test in outpatient, without the need of patient sedation
— Precision and accuracy of the TM -Wick electrode, compared to other non-invasive methods, thanks to its ability to extract both the action potential ( CAP ) and the summating potential ( SP ),as well as the CM potential, clear and repeatable
— Automatic calculation of the SP / AP ratio ( % )
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FOLLOW-UP FOR COCHLEAR IMPLANTS
SOCRATES assists the ENT doctor before, during and after the introduction of a cochlear implant:
— Before, by preliminary using non-invasive ECochG test
— During, by facial nerve monitoring, as the surgeon will rely on an integrated and progressive alarm light and sound
— After, thanks to the reliability of the electric ABR ( E - ABR ) compatible with all major types of cochlear implant on the market
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FAST, RELIABLE AND ACCURATE ASSR
SOCRATES provides the highest reliability in the estimation of ASSR potentials, ensuring:
— Up to 8 stimuli simultaneously
— Acquisition by two indipendent channels
— Fast threshold thanks to the post-processing algorithms by Hedera
— Predefined or customized stimulation parameters and test parameters
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SOCRATES FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
SOCRATES is the ideal solution both for clinical and scientific research , thanks to its "expert" interface , which allows :
— A total programming of the stimulation parameters, stimuli, both classics such as Click, Tone Burst, Tone pips, and arbitrary
— Programmability of all the test parameters , such as analog, digital and mathematical filtering or the variable gain
— Automatic normatives, to organize intuitively studies dedicated to various diseases, compared with physiological data
Helix: The Software
HELIX includes the module to efficiently perform tests by using SOCRATES.
It ensures the full professional management of medical records, into a single, user-friendly software solution.
HELIX allows to visualize and exploit the advantages of the whole patient clinical history, to be archived into a single computer, or shared with several operative locations, by the HELIXNET licence.
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