Infant Cervical Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials: A Scoping Review.

Autor:	Bassett AM; Department of Communication Disorders, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.; Dual first authorship request., Suresh C; Department of Communication Disorders, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.; Dual first authorship request.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Ear and hearing [Ear Hear] 2024 Nov-Dec 01; Vol. 45 (6), pp. 1353-1361. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 05.
DOI:	10.1097/AUD.0000000000001548
Abstrakt:	Objectives: Children diagnosed with hearing loss typically demonstrate increased rates of vestibular loss as compared with their peers, with hearing within normal limits. Decreased vestibular function is linked with delays in gross motor development, acquisition of gross motor skills, and academic challenges. Timely development of sitting and walking gross motor skills aids in the progress of environmental exploratory activities, which have been tied to cognitive, language, and vocabulary development. Considering the time-sensitive development of gross motor skills and cognitive, language, and vocabulary development, identifying vestibular loss in infancy can support early intervention. This scoping review analyzes stimulus, recording, and participant factors relevant to assessing cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMPs) in the infant population. Design: The scoping literature review was conducted on literature published between 2000 and 2023, focusing on articles assessing cVEMPs in infants. Two authors independently followed Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic and Meta-Analysis guidelines for title and abstract screening, full-text review, data extraction, and quality assessments. Sixteen articles meeting the inclusion criteria were included in the analysis. Results: The existing literature lacks consensus regarding stimulus and recording parameters for measuring infant cVEMPs. In addition, the review reveals a decrease in cVEMP response occurrence rates with the severity of hearing loss, especially in cases of severe to profound hearing loss, compared with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss in infants. Conclusions: This scoping review demonstrates the increasing use of cVEMP as a reliable tool for objectively assessing infant vestibular function. The lack of consensus in stimulus and recording parameters emphasizes the need for systematic research to establish an evidence-based protocol for cVEMP measurements in infants. Such a protocol will ensure the reliable measurement of cVEMPs in infants and enhance the effectiveness of cVEMP as part of the infant vestibular test battery. In addition, there is a necessity for a comprehensive large-scale study to evaluate the practicality and feasibility of implementing vestibular screening protocols for infants diagnosed with sensorineural hearing loss in the United States. Competing Interests: The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose. (Copyright © 2024 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.)
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