1. PREVALENCE OF RISK INDICES FOR HEARING LOSS IN 'FAILURE' RESULTS OF NEWBORN HEARING SCREENING.
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Oliveira, Conceição S., Santiago, Daiane B., Valente, Júlia de S. P., de F. Borja, Ana L. V., and de A. Bernardi, Alice P.
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DEAFNESS in children , *NEWBORN screening , *AUDIOMETRY , *HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA , *NEONATAL infections , *APGAR score , *DIAGNOSIS ,RISK of deafness - Abstract
Purpose: to establish which risk indicator for hearing loss shows the highest prevalence of 'failure' in newborn hearing screening. Methods: using a retrospective analysis of medical records involving 702 infants undergoing neonatal hearing screening in the Audiology Clinic of the Federal University of Bahia in the period 2007-2011, the chi-square test for the hypothesis of no association was made between the risk indicators and 'failure' of the newborn hearing screening. Results: in relation to the infants studied, 352 (50.29%) were male and 348 patients (49.71%) were females, two had no references as to gender. Most babies were between one to three months of age and 45.40% of babies were born prematurely. It was found that infants showed the following risk indicators: 28.83% had hyperbilirubinemia; 22.54% had a history of congenital infection; 15.06% were born weighing less than 1,500 grams; 8.21% had Apgar scores of 0-4 in the 1st minute; 5.07% had Apgar scores 0-6 in the 5th minute; 9.09% received mechanical ventilation; 4.09% had syndromes associated with hearing loss and only 1 (0.84%) infant had bacterial meningitis. Among these infants, 92.45% had no family history of hearing impairment and 97.09% had no craniofacial malformation. Conclusion: there were associations between five risk indicators and 'failure' in neonatal hearing screening. Risk indicators showed the following descending order of prevalence: Apgar score 0-4 in the 1st minute; craniofacial malformations; syndrome associated with hearing loss; Apgar score 0-6 in the 5th minutes; mechanical ventilation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015