[A sensory screening test in neonatal pathology].
Systematic investigation of auditory reactions in newborn babies has been started three years ago at the Centre Hospitalier Regional of Besançon. However, deafness screening at the Maternity has been used for a wider purpose by the authors, who investigated more especially the correlations between the response to auditory stimulus and antenatal and perinatal pathology. Their preliminary study was conducted on 340 newborn infants. A pathological component could nearly always be traced in children showing abnormal response to the sensory stimulus. In view of these positive preliminary results, the authors have undertaken a still more extensive study, in order to determine whether some etiological factors would not come to the foreground.
Zurlinden
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B
Centre d'études expérimentales en obstétrique, Besançon Cedex, France.
Gillet
J Y
JY
Colette
C
C
Colin
P
P
Helias
J
J
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001299:Audiometry; D003638:Deafness / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015997:Neonatal Screening