Newborn Hearing Screening with Two-Step Protocol and Risk Factor Identification: Our Experience at a Tertiary Care Centre in Eastern India.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the prevalence of hearing loss and identify the high-risk factors among neonates with hearing loss.

Methods

Retrospective study done on 1054 infants in a tertiary care centre in Eastern India from 2020 to 2021 and approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee. A two-step protocol is used for screening. In the well-nursed group, OAE and BOA were performed. In the case of REFER results for automated ABR following OAE evaluation in well-nursed babies, a detailed audiological evaluation was scheduled to be carried out using diagnostic ABR within one month of age. In the high-risk group, hearing screening includes OAE, BOA, and AABR evaluations. AABR evaluation was performed as a part of the screening protocol irrespective of the results of OAE screening as

SUBMITTER: Parida PK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10447311 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature