Otoacoustic Emissions

What is the Otoacoustic Emissions Test?

• It is a hearing screening instrument for infants aged 0 to 3 years. It is typically conducted on newborns to detect deafness.
• Otoacoustic emissions are very soft sounds produced in the inner ear (cochlea). OAEs disappear when the inner ear is damaged. It’s used to assess the health of the inner ear.

Why otoacoustic emissions?

Otoacoustic emissions (OAE) are done to find out how well your inner ear and cochlea work. It is done to measure the otoacoustic emissions, i.e., the sounds produced by the inner ear in response to the sound.