Extended High-Frequency Audiometry Using the Wireless Automated Hearing Test System Compared to Manual Audiometry in Children and Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Valid wireless automated Békésy-like audiometry (ABA) outside a sound booth that includes extended high frequencies (EHF) would increase access to monitoring programs for individuals at risk for hearing loss, particularly those at risk for ototoxicity. The purpose of the study was to compare thresholds obtained with (1) manual audiometry using an Interacoustics Equinox and modified Hughson-Westlake 5 dB threshold technique to automated audiometry using the Wireless Automated Hearing Test System (WAHTS) and a Békésy-like 2 dB threshold technique inside a sound booth, and (2) ABA measured in the sound booth to ABA measured outside the sound booth.

Design

Cross-sectional study including 28 typically developing children and adolescents (mean = 14.5 years; range = 10 t

SUBMITTER: Blankenship CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11996617 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May-Jun 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature