Three case studies are presented to illustrate the clinical usefulness of serial electrophysiologic and behavioral audiologic assessments in describing CNS function in severe head injury. There was an association among acute auditory brain stem and middle-latency evoked response findings, computed tomography of brain abnormality and neurologic status, and rate of recovery. Auditory evoked response findings 4 days after injury were also correlated with long-term outcome of diagnostic speech audiometry.
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