Revista Ciencias Biomédicas (Jun 2013)
Importance and new concepts about newborn hearing screening
Abstract
Introduction: infant hearing loss must be detected and intervened in an early way toprevent the delay in the acquisition of the speech and language, preventing the difficultiesand the negative impact in the social, emotional and educational fields.Objective: to identify the proposed strategies to carry out neonatal hearing screening.Methods: a thematic review of publications between 1995 and 2012 was carried out in databases PUBMED, SciELO, and Science Direct, in Spanish and English. All types of publications were included. The reviews were checked and complete texts were chosenabout neonatal hearing screening.Results: 34 completed articles were gotten; they were adjusted to the exigency of theobjective. It is recommended the early diagnosis of the infant hearing loss by meansof the realization of the universal hearing screening. Children with proofs of positivescreening for hearing loss must be submitted to confirmatory proofs as soon as possibleand to receive appropriate treatment.Conclusion: the proof of automated auditory evoked potentials (PEATC-A) is standedout as the greatest sensibility and specificity proof to the hearing screening in newbornand it is recommended specially in children gone away from Newborn Intensive Care Unit. Rev.cienc.biomed. 2013;4(1):116-124.
