Abstract
The auditory brain-stem response (ABR) was used to evaluate the auditory-neural status of children with a history of frequent or persistent otitis media with effusion (OME). Subjects were selected from the case-load of a board certified otolaryngologist and from the population at large. They were pair-matched by age and sex to form an otitis-prone and a control group. The otitis-prone group included only those children whose degree of OME involvement was sufficient to warrant tympanostomy tube placement. Stimuli were rarefaction clicks presented at 85 dB nHl at a rate of 21.4/s. The latency of wave III and the III-I interwave interval were longer for the otitis-prone subjects than for the control subjects, which agrees with earlier results [R. C. Folsom, B. A. Weber, and G. Thompson, Ann. Otol. Rhinol-Laryngol. 92, 249–253 (1983)]. The results and precautions in interpretation will be presented. [Work supported by Carle Research Foundation.]
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