Research Grant
[Cite as http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/245515]Researchers: Prof Michael Halmagyi (Principal investigator)
Brief description A powerful, life-saving and cheap antibiotic, gentamicin, has one potential serious permanent side-effect: loss of balance due to damage to the balance organs of the inner ears. Detected early, the inner ear damage can be reversed by stopping gentamicin. Until now there has been no way of monitoring inner ear balance at the bedside. We have now developed such a method and want to show that by monitoring inner ear balance of patients needing gentamicin we can detect damage at such an early stage that stopping the drug and using another instead will allow the balance organs to recover by themselves.
Funding Amount $AUD 205,500.00
Funding Scheme NHMRC Project Grants
Notes Standard Project Grant
- PURL : http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/245515
- nhmrc : 245515