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ReviewsAcoustic reflex in newborns and infants
M. R. Bogomil’skii (1) , I. V. Rakhmanova (1), (2), I. N. D’yakonova (1), A. G. Matroskin (1), (2)
(1) Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, 117997, Russia
(2) Morozovskaya Children's City Clinical Hospital of the Department of Health of the City Moscow, Moscow, 119049, Russia
UDK: УДК 616-053.3-072.7:612.858.8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2022-1-85-92
ABSTRACT
Acoustic reflexometry is included in the list of complex mandatory screening of newborns in many countries of the world. But, despite this, no more than 65% of doctors include the result in the diagnostic protocol, of which 33% record only the ipsilateral value, and 6% record only the contralateral value. The purpose of this article is to attract attention of children’s audiologists and otorhinolaryngologists to acoustic reflexometry as a method of audiological examination in the objective assessment of auditory function in children. The article addresses the concepts of acoustic reflex, its physiology as well as modern data on the age-related features of such reflex parameters as threshold of acoustic reflex, amplitude of acoustic reflex, and latency of acoustic reflex. Clinical aspects of application of acoustic reflexometry in adults are described, so are available data in the world literature, at the present time, peculiarities of performance and interpretation of stapedial reflex indices in children of the first year of life.
Publication date:
15.02.2022
Keywords:
acoustic reflex, acoustic reflex threshold, child. For citation:
Bogomil’skii M. R., Rakhmanova I. V., D’yakonova I. N., Matroskin A. G. Acoustic reflex in newborns and infants. Rossiiskaya otorinolaringologiya. 2022;21(1):85-92. https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2022-1-85-92