A study of hearing loss in infants using brain stem evoked response audiometry

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Hearing is necessary to learn languages and speech develop cognitive skills. Unfortunately, many children with severe hearing loss from birth are not diagnosed until 21/2-3 years. of age. Implementing high-risk neonatal screening, detecting before 3 months, intervention 6 months will result in a better performance neonates.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> Detailed history taking general ear, nose throat (ENT) examination were done rule out external ear middle pathology. Brainstem evoked response audiometry (BERA) was dust-free, sound-proof, airconditioned room. Feed given 10–15 min the procedure. Syrup pedichloryl 20 mg/kg sedate baby half an hour Intelligent system BERA instrument used. The study included total 60 infants. 30 group normal group. There 14 males 16 females each </p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> 21 infants had on initial screening. On doing repeat after mins affected infants, detected have hearing, i.e., 18 affected. All or no risk factor hearing.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> present emphasizes importance using ABR as screening tool for detection impairment at early stage which would otherwise go unnoticed about 2-3 Since it objective test, useful identification loss.</p><p> </p>