OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS IN OTOLOGIC PRACTICE

Otoacoustic emissions offer the clinician a number of advantages as ob jective measures of the peripheral processing of sound. A great number of studies over the past few years have shown that evoked emissions a re helpful in the screening of cochlear function in infants and young children, in the diagnosis of sensorineural hearing loss, and in the m onitoring of outer hair cell activity in special subpopulations of cri tically ill patients and noise-exposed industrial workers. The focus o f the present report is to review the benefits of evoked-emissions tes ting that can be realized in the practice of otology and/or neurotolog y.