EBM 505: ABR and Otoacoustic Emissions in the Assessment of Childhood Hearing Loss

Lecture on diagnosing hearing loss in children with the auditory brainstem response and otoacoustic emissions: the standard procedure from history and examination through basic tests and investigations to diagnosis, management and follow-up, evoked potentials and impedance, the three-wave and click-train ABR, the types of otoacoustic emission, and how the two are read together in a child who cannot respond to behavioural testing.