USEFULNESS OF AUDITORY BRAINSTEM AUDIOMETRY IN FORENSIC MEDICINE AND EXPERTISE OF AUDITORY DISABILITIES
Abstract:
Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) Audiometry is widely used in diagnosing deafness in
children, assessment of hearing threshold in adults, determining the type of hearing loss and detection of
auditory nerve or brainstem lesions. The goal of this article is to highlight the main features of Auditory
Brainstem Response Audiometry which uses the click as a stimulus, but also other stimuli with frequency
specificity, like short duration tones (burst) or continuous tones (Auditory Steady State Response, ASSR).
Also, we emphasize the advantages and disadvantages of the techniques used in assessing of hearing in
adults who request forensic medicine services or in deaf patients who undertake auditory handicap
expertise.
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