Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening - a Necessity and not a Choice
INTRODUCTION Congenital deafness in a child is often missed. Several distraction tests have evolved over time to diagnose congenital deafness. These are of limited value in the era of Evoked response audiometry. Evoked responses, such as Oto-acoustic emission (OAE) and Brainstem Evoked Response A...
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| author | Saikat Samaddar Swagatam Banerjee Sanjoy Kumar Ghosh Subhra Bhattacharya Diptanshu Mukherjee Sirshak Dutta |
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Congenital deafness in a child is often missed. Several distraction tests have evolved over time to diagnose congenital deafness. These are of limited value in the era of Evoked response audiometry. Evoked responses, such as Oto-acoustic emission (OAE) and Brainstem Evoked Response Audiometry (BERA) have played a significant role in early diagnosis of congenital hearing impairment. The study was conducted to compare the result of neonatal hearing screening in high risk and non high risk neonates.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
A study was conducted over a time period of three months at a tertiary care institute to screen all live neonates for congenital hearing impairment using OAE and BERA.
RESULT
1182 neonates were screened for hearing impairment. 336 were in High risk group and rest in Non high risk group. Nine neonates turned out to have abnormal BERA result (absence of wave V). Six of them were high risk babies and rest 3 were non high risk.
DISCUSSION
33.33% of congenital deaf population detected by UNHS belong to the Non High Risk group. Studies across the world suggest at least 50% chance of missing out a congenital deaf child if Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening is not practiced.
CONCLUSION
In order to ensure that early detection and effective intervention are made on all newborns with hearing impairment, UNHS should be performed. Three stage UNHS protocol using TEOAEs and BERA showed that the implementation of UNHS for congenital childhood hearing loss among all newborns in India feasible and effective. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4088e9d791ab45e48aaf5965f659a72c2024-03-02T13:51:22ZengThe Association of Otolaryngologists of India, West BengalBengal Journal of Otolaryngology and Head Neck Surgery2395-24072015-04-0123110.47210/bjohns.2015.v23i1.29Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening - a Necessity and not a ChoiceSaikat Samaddar0Swagatam Banerjee1Sanjoy Kumar Ghosh2Subhra Bhattacharya3Diptanshu Mukherjee4Sirshak Dutta5Medical College And Hospital, Kolkata.Medical College, KolkataMedical College, KolkataMedical College, KolkataMedical CollegeMedical College, KolkataINTRODUCTION Congenital deafness in a child is often missed. Several distraction tests have evolved over time to diagnose congenital deafness. These are of limited value in the era of Evoked response audiometry. Evoked responses, such as Oto-acoustic emission (OAE) and Brainstem Evoked Response Audiometry (BERA) have played a significant role in early diagnosis of congenital hearing impairment. The study was conducted to compare the result of neonatal hearing screening in high risk and non high risk neonates. MATERIALS AND METHODS A study was conducted over a time period of three months at a tertiary care institute to screen all live neonates for congenital hearing impairment using OAE and BERA. RESULT 1182 neonates were screened for hearing impairment. 336 were in High risk group and rest in Non high risk group. Nine neonates turned out to have abnormal BERA result (absence of wave V). Six of them were high risk babies and rest 3 were non high risk. DISCUSSION 33.33% of congenital deaf population detected by UNHS belong to the Non High Risk group. Studies across the world suggest at least 50% chance of missing out a congenital deaf child if Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening is not practiced. CONCLUSION In order to ensure that early detection and effective intervention are made on all newborns with hearing impairment, UNHS should be performed. Three stage UNHS protocol using TEOAEs and BERA showed that the implementation of UNHS for congenital childhood hearing loss among all newborns in India feasible and effective.https://bjohns.in/journal3/index.php/bjohns/article/view/29DeafnessInfantNewbornHearing TestsEvoked PotentialsAuditory |
| spellingShingle | Saikat Samaddar Swagatam Banerjee Sanjoy Kumar Ghosh Subhra Bhattacharya Diptanshu Mukherjee Sirshak Dutta Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening - a Necessity and not a Choice Bengal Journal of Otolaryngology and Head Neck Surgery Deafness Infant Newborn Hearing Tests Evoked Potentials Auditory |
| title | Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening - a Necessity and not a Choice |
| title_full | Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening - a Necessity and not a Choice |
| title_fullStr | Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening - a Necessity and not a Choice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening - a Necessity and not a Choice |
| title_short | Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening - a Necessity and not a Choice |
| title_sort | universal neonatal hearing screening a necessity and not a choice |
| topic | Deafness Infant Newborn Hearing Tests Evoked Potentials Auditory |
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