When the auditory brainstem response(ABR) is used for hearing threshold estimation, was V generally is tracked out and it is an important clinical tool particularly for the newborn, infant, children and the malingerers.
However, ABR dose not test hearing in a-perceptual sense, but rather, it assesses the integrity of certain neural elements of the peripheral auditory system form which estimation of hearing may be derived. Also, the click-evoked ABR provides
little
information regarding the slope of the audiometric configuration.
Authors studies on the relationship between the pure-tone threshold(PTT) and the ABR threshold for 26 ears with possibly cochlear pathology. The ABR thereshold correlated best with the PTT at 2 kHz(0.716) and 2-4 kHz(0.707).
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