title: Prevalence of auditory changes in newborns in a teaching hospital.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The precocious diagnosis and the intervention in the deafness are of basic importance in the infantile development. The loss auditory and more prevalent than other joined riots to the birth.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Esteem the prevalence of auditory alterations in just-born in a hospital school.
  
  
  METHODS
  Prospective transversal study that evaluated 226 just-been born, been born in a public hospital, between May of 2008 the May of 2009.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 226 screened, 46 (20.4%) had presented absence of emissions, having been directed for the second emission. Of the 26 (56.5%) children who had appeared in the retest, 8 (30.8%) had remained with absence and had been directed to the Otolaryngologist. Five (55.5%) had appeared and had been examined by the doctor. Of these, 3 (75.0%) had presented normal otoscopy, being directed for evaluation of the Evoked Potential Auditory of Brainstem (PEATE). Of the total of studied children, 198 (87.6%) had had presence of emissions in one of the tests and, 2 (0.9%) with deafness diagnosis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The prevalence of auditory alterations in the studied population was of 0,9%. The study it offers given excellent epidemiologists and it presents the first report on the subject, supplying resulted preliminary future implantation and development of a program of neonatal auditory selection.
authors.affiliation: Epidemiologist. Doctor in Sciences of the Health. Responsible for the Service of Audiology of the Clinic of Otolaryngology HC/UFG.
authors.forename: Valeriana de Castro
authors.initials: Vde C
authors.lastname: Guimarães
authors.affiliation: Doctor in Nursing. Head Professor of the College of Nursing - UFG.
authors.forename: Maria Alves
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Barbosa
keywords: auditory loss; deafness; neonatal selection; precocious diagnosis