Conductive Loss (Moderate)
Moderate hearing loss caused by middle-ear blockage. Conversation requires noticeably raised voices, and quieter sounds become inaudible. Like a more severe version of having blocked ears. This level of loss is often treatable with medication or surgery.
Summary
- Pure-tone average (PTA) · Left ear
- 48 dB
- Pure-tone average (PTA) · Right ear
- 48 dB
- Most loss at
- 500 Hz · 50 dB
- Severity
- Moderate
Flat 43/43 dB (conductive)
Pure-tone average is the quietest tone each ear can just hear, averaged across three pitches central to speech (500 Hz, 1 kHz, and 2 kHz). It’s the single number U.S. audiologists use to sum up an audiogram. 15 dB or lower is typical hearing, and every 10 dB higher means sounds need to be about twice as loud to be heard. Internationally, the World Health Organization averages four pitches, adding 4 kHz, so where high pitches have more loss its number comes out higher.
Degree of the worse ear, averaged over all eight frequencies, on the scale used by U.S. audiologists (ASHA)
Thresholds by frequency
| Hz | L | R |
|---|---|---|
| 250 | 45 | 45 |
| 500 | 50 | 50 |
| 1k | 50 | 50 |
| 2k | 45 | 45 |
| 3k | 42 | 42 |
| 4k | 40 | 40 |
| 6k | 38 | 38 |
| 8k | 35 | 35 |