Volume : 6, Issue : 7, July - 2017

SCREENING OF NORMAL AND HIGH RISK INFANTS FOR HEARING IMPAIRMENT BY OTO ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS TEST

Dr Prarthana Kalgaonkar, Dr Geeta Karambelkar

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Significant bilateral hearing loss is present in ~1 to 3 per 1000 newborns in well baby nursery and</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">in ~ 2 to 4 per 100 newborns in NICU. Hearing loss if undetected will impede speech, language, and cognitive development. Thus, all infants should be screened at no later than 1 month of age and should get appropriate intervention at least by 6 months of age. We conducted a hearing screening test, OAE on 500 newborns which included normal as well as high risk newborns &amp; infants. The study was conducted in tertiary care medical institution,</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">and associated risk factors were studied. </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">We found 5 in 500 babies (1%) to have suspected hearing deficit out of which 4 babies were confirmed to have hearing loss by BERA (ainstem evoked response audiometry) test. </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:&#10;200%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>