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Pierre Bonfils, MD; Alain Uziel, MD, PhD; Rémy Pujol, PhD

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1988;114(8):887-890.

Abstract
• Auditory threshold using auditory brain-stem responses (ABR) was determined in 30 ears from normally-hearing infants and 16 ears from infants with sensorineural deafness. In the same population, evoked oto-acoustic emissions (EOAEs) in response to a click of 20-dB hearing level were recorded. The presence of EOAEs was correlated with ABR thresholds. Evoked oto-acoustic emissions were always present when ABR wave V threshold was equal to or below 30-dB hearing level. On the contrary, infants with ABR thresholds higher than 40-dB hearing level never had EOAEs. As the recordings of EOAEs could be obtained more rapidly than ABR thresholds (average duration: five minutes vs 40 minutes), EOAEs could hold some promise as an objective, easy, and noninvasive test for screening auditory dysfunction in infants.

(Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1988;114:887-890)

Author Affiliations
From the INSERM (Drs Bonfils, Uziel, and Pujol), and Ear, Nose, and Throat Department, Clinique Otorhinolaryngologie (Drs Bonfils and Uziel), Universités de Montpellier I et II, Hôpital St Charles, Montpellier, France.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication March 24, 1988.

Reprints not available.

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