Hi everyone,

I'm now working out the snags of doing vestibular testing. I'm doing Dix Hallpike with video recording, rotary chair, videonystagmography. Someone today as I was practicing on them gave me the idea of first doing a "test" of the communication by having them count to 10 and I count to 10 with the rotary chair door closed before I even start with anything, to make sure they are transmitting via my FM and that they can hear me via the intercom microphone. I was also just thinking that I might try to make the topic of conversation with the rotary chair when I'm trying to task during tests requiring tasking something very narrow so I have the context to help me out.

Any other tricks people have up their sleeve that they use? I know it'll get easier as I get more and more familiar with the protocal as just knowing what buttons to push won't take up as much of my attention and I can devote more of my attention to hearing my patients.

Julie