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Choose one or more otoprotectant and discuss its effectiveness in protecting the auditory system.

Background – You are in your clinic and a patient hands you a snippet from a paper that claims to have found a new type of drug that can reduce the impact of noise and actively protects our auditory system! The patient asks for your thoughts, as the paper is well known for its misleading articles and hyperbole. You decide to do some research and find out for yourself.

Task – Choose an otoprotectant (drug) and discuss its effectiveness in protecting the auditory system. Some otoprotectants have been researched more than others, so feel free to evaluate the efficacy of more than one if needed.

Tips:

1 – Discuss the effect of noise on the auditory system firstly, and if a particular drug affects a certain part of the system, discuss that, so the reader has a better understanding on how the drug may or may not work.

2 – If choosing 1 otoprotectant to discuss, make sure there is enough papers, research and information out there to write your essay. Also, if discussing more than one drug then make sure you are writing enough information for each and that you include enough articles/evidence.

3 – Don’t forget that the effectiveness can be proven as effective or non-effective, so finding no links to protecting the auditory system is fine.

4 – Make sure you are looking at reliable & scientific sources! Watch out for homeopathic reviews or papers with conflicts of interest.