METHOD FOR ASSESSING AUDITION IN PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM MIDDLE EAR PATHOLOGY Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61B5/12 A61B5/484 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: brainstem auditory evoked responses (BAERs) to an acoustic click are recorded, and a V-peak of the evoked response is imaged. The BAERs to stimuli 40 dB are recorded. The stimuli are presented by the acoustic click and chirp-stimuli at 4,000, 1,000 and 500 Hz. If observing the V-peak in BAERs to the chirp-stimuli with the above peak absent in response to the acoustic click, a middle ear pathology is diagnosed.

EFFECT: technique enables assessing the audition function objectively accompanying the middle ear inflammations that is ensured by recording the BAER to the click and the chirp-stimuli.

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