Introduction.
Background Skills and Information.
General Instructions.
Professional Practice Issues Related to AEPs.
Infection Control.
Electrical Safety.
Biomedical Certification Form.
Equipment and Materials Needed to Complete Laboratory Exercises.
Sample AEP Recording Chart.
Preparation Checklist.
Procedure for Applying Electrodes.
Cultural Considerations.
Instructions for Patients Who Are Going to Have an ABEP Test.
Sample Letter to Caregiver of Patient Before Sedated ABEP.
Audiologist Instructions to the Patient When the Patient Arrives.
Scientific Notation and Converting Units Worksheet.
Binary System Worksheet.
Becoming Familiar with the Evoked Potential Unit.
Daily Safety Check and Biologic Check.
Behavioral Calibration.
Physical Calibration.
Testing Electrodes with Analog Multimeter.
Laboratory Exercises—General.
Reliability and Measurement Basics.
Laboratory Exercises—Stimulus Parameters.
Intensity Effects.
Rate Effects.
Rate and Interstimulus Intervals Worksheet.
Stimulus Effects.
Transducer Effects.
Monaural/Binaural Effects.
Masking Effects.
Laboratory Exercises—Acquisition/Recording Parameters.
Averaging Effects.
Sampling Frequency Effects.
Montage Effects.
Amplifier Gain Effects.
Filter Effects.
Laboratory Exercises—Subject Parameters.
Inter-Electrode Impedance Effects.
Muscle Artifact Effects.
Temperature Conversion Worksheet.
Chloral Hydrate Sedation Worksheet.
Physician's Desk Reference Worksheet.
Hearing Impairment Effects.
Laboratory Exercises—Professional Applications.
Using AEPs Clinically.
Sample Protocol: Estimation of Auditory Sensitivity in Difficult-to-Test Patients.
Worksheet for Estimating Auditory Sensitivity (Clicks and 0.5 kHz) Using ABEP.
Worksheet for Estimating Auditory Sensitivity (0.5 and 2 kHz) Using ABEP.
Sample Estimation of Auditory Sensitivity Case.
Sample Protocol: ABEP Contribution toward Neurodiagnosis.
Worksheet for Neurodiagnostic Applications of ABEPs.
Checklist for Neurodiagnostic Application of AEPs.
Sample Neuro-Diagnostic Case.
Clinical ABEP Report Writing.
Report Format for Estimation of Auditory Sensitivity Using ABEP.
Report Format for Adult Neurodiagnostic Evaluation Using ABEP.
Establishing Laboratory Normative Ranges.
Regulations and Suggestions for Successful Sedated ABEP Tests.
Sample Protocol: Sedated ABEP Testing.
Establishing an AEP Laboratory.
Laboratory Exercises—Advanced Applications.
Troubleshooting.
Middle Latency and Steady-State Evoked Potentials.
Long Latency Evoked Potentials.
P3 Evoked Potential.
Intraoperative Monitoring.
Determination of Brain Death.
Supplemental Information and Reference Materials.
Case History for Potential Subjects.
Sample Reports.
Cases.
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Codes.
Organizations, Suppliers, Manufacturers.
Student AEP Evaluation Form.
Competencies in AEP Measurement.
Bibliography.
Suggested References.
Glossary.
