A study of the high-risk registry for sensorineural hearing impairment.
In the medical evaluation, rehabilitation, and education of the hearing impaired, the first line of defense is the high-risk factor screening for sensorineural damage of all neonates. The most efficacious means of neonatal screening for those factors affecting sensorineural hearing damage is the employment of a high-risk registry. Based on a retrospective study of 109 children with sensorineural loss, high-risk factors and how improved use of the high-risk registry permits earlier detection (and statistically more successful rehabilitation) for such auditory-impaired children are discussed. The importance of pediatric screening of all neonates for hearing loss, in addition to use of the high-risk registry, is evidenced by the fact that only 46% of the children retrospectively identified in our study would have routinely appeared among the high-risk infants were the registry used alone.
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001238:Asphyxia Neonatorum / Q000150:complications; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000150:complications; D003638:Deafness / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics / Q000534:rehabilitation; D005260:Female; D006320:Hearing Tests; D006801:Humans; D006932:Hyperbilirubinemia / Q000150:complications; D007223:Infant; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D008582:Meningitis, Aseptic / Q000150:complications; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012306:Risk; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000150:complications