Before the ENT doctor commits to putting grommets in Raphael's ears, they wanted to have another ABR test done to see if his hearing had improved since the last one. So we went to another two hour appointment today with the audiologist.Unfortunately he only slept for 30 minutes which was only enough time to test his right ear. This showed that he could only hear volumes over 60db.
Because there was not enough time to test his left ear, I will have to take him to another two hour appointment on Friday to have the test repeated. Hopefully there will also be time to perform a bone conduction hearing test as well. Because this requires touching him while he is sleeping there is a good chance that he'll wake up during this one so I don't know if that will be possible at all.
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Dear Paul: I read your posting of Mar./07 and it's now 16-Apr-08. This may be not pertinent info for you now. But there is new technology out there that does ABR testing WITHOUT the need for sedation or general anesthesia. If you would like to know more of the alternatives, check out www.vivosonic.com
Kathy
thankyou for this information. I think that we are not past the need for using ABR as he is responsive to VROA (subjective tests) but I will keep this in mind next time I speak to out ENT to see if they think it is worthwhile.
Paul
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