Assessment of Interaural Attenuation in Infants and Young Children Using Bone-Conducted Auditory Brainstem Response.

Objectives: In hearing assessment, the term interaural attenuation (IAA) is used to quantify the reduction in test signal intensity as it crosses from the side of the test ear to the nontest ear. In the auditory brainstem response (ABR) testing of infants and young children, the size of the IAA of bone-conducted (BC) stimuli is essential for the appropriate use of masking, which is needed for the accurate measurement of BC ABR thresholds. This study aimed to assess the IAA for BC ABR testing using 0.

Newborn Hearing Screening: Early Ear Examination Improves the Pass Rate.

Background: Temporary conductive hearing loss due to vernix accumulation in the external ear canal may lead to a false-positive result in newborn hearing screening tests. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether ear examination and intervention may reduce the false-positive rate prior to hospital discharge.

Methods: A case series of 42 newborns who failed initial otoacoustic emissions screening were studied in our institution between May and December 2020.

ISOM 2023 research Panel 4 - Diagnostics and microbiology of otitis media.

Objectives: To identify and review key research advances from the literature published between 2019 and 2023 on the diagnosis and microbiology of otitis media (OM) including acute otitis media (AOM), recurrent AOM (rAOM), otitis media with effusion (OME), chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) and AOM complications (mastoiditis).

Data Sources: PubMed database of the National Library of Medicine.

Review Methods: All relevant original articles published in Medline in English between July 2019 and February 2023 were identified.