title: Waveforms of cochlear implant-evoked auditory brain stem responses in anesthetized young children, recorded with a new preamplifier.
abstract: An ultra-low-noise preamplifier has been specifically designed for the conditions in lightly anesthetized young children, to record cochlear implant--evoked auditory brain stem responses (impEABRs). The preamplifier linearly filters out the signal from the radio-frequency implant-driver. The preamplifier provides simultaneous accurate records of the stimulus-current artifact and impEABR, both ipsilaterally and contralaterally. It is convenient to label electrically evoked vertex-positive peaks, eg, eII, on probable analogy with acoustically evoked potentials. In order to label all the commonly observed peaks with latency less than 5 milliseconds, it is necessary at times to use labels eIIa, eIIb, eIIIa, eIIIb, eIVa, eIVb, eVa, and eVb. The records also show two distinct nadirs, with latencies about 2.5 milliseconds and about 6 milliseconds. The details of the waveforms are preserved as the stimulus strength descends towards threshold.
authors.affiliation: Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Game
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sanli
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000669:Amplifiers, Electronic / Q000592:standards*; D000768:Anesthesia, General; D016477:Artifacts; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; D006801:Humans; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted