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Screening for deafness.
Eskander and Papsin1 may be somewhat disingenuous in their plea for neonatal screening for deafness. Underlying this notion is the unspoken concept that, having detected a hearing impairment in an infant, it is required that we treat him or her with a cochlear implant. Although early placement of cochlear implants may well foster acquisition of the spoken language of the larger community, as im...
متن کاملScreening for sensorineural deafness by health visitors
Screening for hearing loss in the first year of life, using the distraction test, remains the responsibility of health visitors in most health districts in the United Kingdom. We have evaluated the screening procedure used routinely in one health region in a population of infants at increased risk of sensorineural deafness. They were infants who weighed less than 2000 g at birth or infants who ...
متن کاملCombination of hearing screening and genetic screening for deafness-susceptibility genes in newborns
The aim of this study was to determine the clinical significance of the results of screening of newborn hearing and the incidence of deafness-susceptibility genes. One thousand newborn babies in the Handan Center Hospital (Handan, China) underwent screening of hearing and deafness-susceptibility genes. The first screening test was carried out using otoacoustic emissions (OAEs). Babies with hear...
متن کاملDeafness in general practice measured by a screening audiometer.
OF THE many diagnostic instruments now available to the practitioner none is so satisfactory to use as the audiometer. Antibiotics and the affluent society may be responsible for the virtual disappearance of acute mastoiditis in children as seen by the general practitioner in south-east England, but deafness is still common in adolescents. A child who has apparently recovered from acute otitis ...
متن کاملNeonatal otoacoustic emission screening and the identification of deafness.
Using transient evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAEs), a two stage screen with the testing of failures by auditory brainstem response (ABR), has been implemented in Whipps Cross Hospital in East London. From January 1992 to 1995, 11,606 infants received an initial TEOAE test. Once initial difficulties were resolved, coverage of district residents remained stable at 91.5%. Long term follow up of...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.1150015