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Newborn hearing screening: a regional example for national care.
Adelola, O A Papanikolaou, V Gormley, P Lang, J Keogh, I J
Adelola, O A
Papanikolaou, V
Gormley, P
Lang, J
Keogh, I J
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Date
2010-05
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Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem
Female
Hearing Loss
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Ireland
Male
Neonatal Screening
Otoacoustic Emissions, Spontaneous
Prevalence
Sensitivity and Specificity
State Medicine
Female
Hearing Loss
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Ireland
Male
Neonatal Screening
Otoacoustic Emissions, Spontaneous
Prevalence
Sensitivity and Specificity
State Medicine
Planned Date
Start Date
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Abstract
Congenital Permanent Childhood Hearing Impairment (PCHI) is known to have a negative effect on language acquisition, cognitive development and social integration. Since 2000 our department has implemented a UNHS program in the West of Ireland. We describe our experience and detail our results to date. All neonates born from October 2000 to November 2007 were screened using a 2-stage protocol. Transient evoked oto-acoustic emissions (TEOAEs) were used to screen all neonates, followed by automated auditory brainstem response (AABR) in those who did not pass TEOAE, and all neonates at audiological risk. 26,281 babies were born over the eight year period. 25,742 underwent the screening process, achieving a coverage rate of 98%. The prevalence of PCHI in the population tested was 1.21/1000 live births (31/25,731). Our results show that a hospital based 2-stage UNHS protocol using TEOAEs and AABR is accurate, feasible and effective.
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en
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0332-3102
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20666087