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Initial Audiologic Assessment of Infants: Comments on Karzon and Lieu (2006)

UMass Memorial Medical Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester

Contact author: Todd B. Sauter, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Audiology Department HA-480, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA 01655. E-mail: sautert{at}ummhc.org.

Purpose: To comment on a recently published article titled "Initial Audiologic Assessment of Infants Referred From Well Baby, Special Care, and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Nurseries" by R. K. Karzon and J. E. C. Lieu (2006).

Method: Comments are directed specifically at the sequence of testing described in the article.

Conclusions: This letter challenges the efficiency of beginning infant audiologic evaluations with the auditory brainstem response evoked by high-intensity, unmasked click stimuli. Reasons as well as alternatives favored by the author and other researchers are presented and summarized.

Key Words: newborn hearing screening, auditory neuropathy, auditory brainstem response

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				R. K. Karzon and J. E. C. Lieu Response to Sauter (2007) Am J Audiol, June 1, 2007; 16(1): 77 - 78. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]