IDENTIFICATION OF HEARING LOSS IN THE NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT POPULATION
作者:
J. Dennis,
Roger Sheldon,
Paul Toubas,
Mary McCaffee,
期刊:
The American Journal of Otology
(OVID Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 5,
issue 3
页码: 201-205
ISSN:0192-9763
年代: 1984
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
A protocol was designed to evaluate babies in neonatal intensive care units by means of the auditory brain stem response (ABR) audiometric technique during their hospitalization. This article presents the results obtained from 200 babies. Twenty-three infants failed the ABR test. Fifteen babies were followed. Ten of these infants had significant sensorineural hearing loss. Three had unilateral involvement and seven had bilateral impairment. The seven bilaterally affected infants were fitted with appropriate hearing aid amplification and enrolled in audiologic habilitation programs. Continued follow-up of these babies has confirmed the hearing loss diagnosis. These data estimate that 5 percent of babies in neonatal intensive care units have some degree of hearing loss. The findings encourage the use of the ABR technique as a means of identifying hearing loss in the neonatal intensive care unit population.
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