Otolaryngology Service Usage in Children With Cleft Palate.

Objectives: To determine the usage of otolaryngology services by children with cleft palate at a pediatric tertiary care facility.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Setting: Specialty clinic at a pediatric tertiary care hospital.

Perioperative Hearing Evaluations for Patients Undergoing Tympanostomy Tube Placement.

Importance: Obtaining hearing thresholds is an important step in the evaluation of a child with otitis media because decreased hearing in the presence of a chronic middle ear effusion factors into the decision to place tympanostomy tubes (TTs).

Objective: To provide evidence regarding appropriate use of perioperative hearing evaluations in conjunction with TTs.

Design, Setting, And Participants: Case series with medical record review of all patients aged 0 to 24 years who received TTs at a tertiary pediatric care facility from June 1, 2010, through June 1, 2011.

Vestibular evoked myogenic potential testing for the diagnosis of conductive hearing loss: survey of pediatric otolaryngologists' knowledge and beliefs.

Objectives: To assess physicians' knowledge and beliefs regarding vestibular evoked myogenic potential (VEMP) testing in children.

Methods: A survey was delivered via email in html format to 1069 members of the American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery who identified as pediatric otolaryngologists. Study data were collected and managed using the Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) tools.

Clinical uses of cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic potential testing in pediatric patients.

To demonstrate the feasibility and clinical significance of cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (cVEMP) test in pediatric patients.Retrospective review study was conducted in a pediatric tertiary care facility. A total of 278 patients were identified with adequate data, including medical notes, results of cVEMP, and imaging studies.

Crural attachment to promontory case report: implications for stapes development.

Understanding of the embryologic origin of the stapes remains controversial. Theories diverge upon whether the entirety of the stapes arises from a single source versus the footplate and suprastructure arising from distinct sources. A 12-year-old boy with left-sided conductive hearing loss had computed tomography of the temporal bone, revealing an inferiorly displaced left stapes, and a nonspecific density in the left Prussak's space.

Persistent conductive or mixed hearing loss after the placement of tympanostomy tubes.

Objective: Described is a case series of clinical findings in children with persistent conductive or mixed hearing loss following tympanostomy tube placement for serous otitis media.

Study Design: Retrospective chart review.

Setting: Tertiary pediatric hospital.

Clinical experience of auditory brainstem response testing on pediatric patients in the operating room.

Objectives. To review our experience of conducting auditory brainstem response (ABR) test on children in the operating room and discuss the benefits versus limitations of this practice. Methods.

Pediatric hearing assessment by auditory brainstem response in the operating room.

Objectives: To investigate the factors contributing to the discrepancies between auditory brainstem response (ABR) thresholds obtained in the operating room (OR) and hearing outcomes obtained in the follow-up period and to explore the benefits and limitations of performing ABR in the OR.

Methods: A retrospective review study was conducted in a pediatric tertiary care facility. A total of 116 patients were identified with complete records, including OR-ABR results, medical examination and surgical procedure notes, and follow-up medical/audiological evaluation.