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The 4th of July is right around the corner! This festive holiday is often marked by backyard barbecues, outdoor fun, and dazzling fireworks displays. While fireworks can be an exciting part of the celebration, it's important to take proper safety precautions to avoid potential hearing damage.

Pure tone audiometry is a fundamental hearing test used to identify hearing threshold levels of an individual, allowing for the determination of the degree and type of hearing loss. While the core steps and procedures of this test have remained consistent, advancements in technology and methodology over the years have significantly enhanced its accuracy and reliability.

With over 20 years of research and development, the validity of GSI AMTAS has been proven through comprehensive studies. GSI AMTAS comes in two versions–learn more about which version fits your unique needs.

May is Better Hearing Month, and there's no better time to shine a spotlight on the importance of early detection, accurate diagnosis, and the life-changing power of hearing healthcare. GSI is proud to support hearing healthcare professionals in their mission to improve lives through cutting-edge diagnostic technology.

An update to GSI AMTAS™ was recently released. This update has streamlined testing, added support for new audiometric tools, and enhanced functionality. Continue reading this blog for the top 5 things you should know about the latest release of GSI AMTAS.

In the final episode of the "Closing the Audiology Gap" series, experts Robert Margolis, PhD, and James W. Hall III, PhD, discuss the future of audiology with a focus on GSI AMTAS™ and automation.

Early detection and intervention of children with hearing loss is critical, and newborn hearing screening is an essential first step in identifying hearing loss. However, additional hearing screenings during childhood are just as critical.

Grason-Stadler recently hosted a webinar on AudiologyOnline featuring Dr. Joseph Dansie, an experienced clinical audiologist, who shared practical insights on using GSI equipment for cochlear implant evaluations. Continue reading to learn more about cochlear implant evaluations and how GSI equipment can enhance your clinic’s evaluation process.

The Speech Intelligibility Index (SII) is a quantitative measure that predicts speech understanding by assessing how much of the speech signal is audible to a patient based on his or her audiogram.

GSI Suite can function as standalone software or integrate with OtoAccess or Noah 4 for a networked solution. Continue reading this blog to learn more about the Template Editor capabilities within GSI Suite and how it can optimize your workflow.

The newly available ACT™ (Audible Contrast Threshold) test is a fast, language-independent, proxy for aided speech-in-noise testing. The results are useful for patient counseling, hearing aid selection, and setting the advanced signal processing features of hearing aids. Let’s look at how the test works and go over some tips on how to implement the ACT test into your practice and avoid some common pitfalls.

This blog post reflects on the third video in the "Closing the Audiology Gap" series, featuring two of the field's most respected experts, Robert Margolis, PhD, and James W. Hall III, PhD. Both Dr. Margolis and Dr. Hall have made significant contributions to audiology, both as professors and clinicians, and remain deeply committed to advancing hearing healthcare.

GSI is pleased to discuss the new updates to the GSI Pello firmware V2.5 in this blog. With these latest updates, the Pello has a lot of new features that will allow for more tests, faster transitions, and general improvements overall. The five things you need to know are discussed below.

This blog entry has been written as a patient-focused overview on protecting yourself from Noise-Induced Hearing Loss.

Although hearing loss is a common condition, at times, it can be difficult to diagnose or detect—especially for those who have hidden hearing loss (HHL). Continue reading this blog for an overview on this condition.

When performing audiological testing on children, you may be met with restlessness and even some uneasiness towards the testing process. Set yourself up for success by selecting equipment that is flexible enough to accommodate these challenges. Continue reading our blog as we discuss which GSI products are best suited to achieve reliable pediatric audiology test results.

“How can audiologists reach the growing number of people experiencing hearing loss?” Continue reading to explore how automated audiometry is addressing this question.

Infection control protocols are set in place to not only keep patients and audiologists safe, but also to ensure accurate test results. Audiologists must be diligent in their efforts to control the spread of infectious diseases within their practice by following suggested infection control guidelines.

Use of recorded speech materials in audiology continues to become more and more popular, and for good reason. There are plenty of articles and studies that have looked at the differences between using monitored live voice (MLV) and digital recordings for obtaining speech results, and it is quite clear that recorded speech is preferred for consistency and accuracy in almost all situations.

This entry to the GSI Blog is a reaction to the second video in the Closing the Audiology Gap series, which features two of our most beloved key opinion leaders, Robert Margolis, PhD and James W. Hall III, PhD.

Disposable supplies are an essential component of maintaining hygiene, cleanliness, and patient comfort when using GSI equipment.

AMTAS Flex, GSI’s self-directed screening and air conduction threshold audiometer, has multiple intended uses for a dispensing audiology practice. In general, AMTAS Flex could be used for everything from community outreach efforts, annual audiometric testing, open houses, and walk-ins.

Recently, I was browsing the e3 Diagnostics blog and came across a great post about what to expect when visiting an audiologist. As an audiologist, I know exactly what to expect at an appointment, but it has been a long time since I have put myself into a patient’s shoes and thought about how nerve-racking a hearing test can be.

As an audiologist for GSI, I often get the question about the differences between the AudioStar Pro™ and Pello™ audiometers. Since the Pello was released in 2016, GSI has been very clear that it is a 1.5 channel mid-level audiometer and that the AudioStar Pro is our 2 channel clinical audiometer. They look very similar (you can definitely tell they’re related) and “audiometry is audiometry”. So, what’s the real difference between the instruments besides the price? This blog post will unpack that question.

This entry of the GSI Blog is a reaction to the first video in the series, Closing the Audiology Gap, that features two of our most beloved key opinion leaders: Robert Margolis, PhD and James W Hall, III, PhD. Dr. Margolis and Dr. Hall have been influential in the audiology profession for decades.

As an audiologist working for an equipment manufacturer, I’m always interested in testing protocols, advances in technology, and best practices. These things shape the future of diagnostic equipment. James W. Hall, III, PhD, proposes an effective and efficient way to diagnose patients’ hearing disorders in a way that shakes up the status quo, and it’s worth a listen.

Tony Lombardo, MS highlights 5 Things to Know about the GSI AudioStar Pro 2 channel clinical audiometer.

There are several enhancements with AMTAS Flex V1.4, let’s look at 5 things that will have an impact on testing and efficiency.

Tony Lombardo lists five things to know about GSI's audiometry and tympanometry combo product, the GSI 39.

Automated audiometry has a long history as a screening application in industrial testing, the military, and schools. While these simple automated air conduction screenings may work well for these specific settings, they are rarely, if ever, used in a clinical setting. AMTAS, GSI’s automated audiometry software solution, is designed to be used in clinics and private practices obtain basic diagnostic audiometric testing including masked air conduction, masked bone conduction and speech testing that includes SRT and WRS.

There are two main ways to perform teleaudiology. Synchronous, or live face-to-face, is the most common form of teleaudiology. The second way to perform teleaudiology is asynchronous, or Store-and-Forward.