Prognostic value of brainstem auditory evoked potentials in pediatric patients with traumatic coma.

This paper studies the auditory evoked potentials of the brainstem (BAEPs) in 30 pediatric patients with serious head trauma admitted to a particular hospital. The results have shown the importance of BAEPs especially in those patients whose prognoses are uncertain.

Hearing assessment in developmentally impaired infants: classical conditioning as a supplement to brainstem-evoked response audiometry (BERA).

The brainstem-evoked response audiometry (BERA) is probably the most common approach to hearing assessment in high-risk and developmentally handicapped infants. It is usually suggested, however, that BERA should not be the sole assessment method. In an attempt to determine an effective supplement to BERA, the present study evaluated a classical conditioning procedure with developmentally impaired babies.