Summary Introduction:?The earlier the diagnosis and the intervention from the hearing impairment less will be the impact for the development of cognitive abilities, hearing and of speech from the child. Objective:?Characterize the age in the diagnosis and the beginning of intervention of the hearing loss and the accompaniment of the assisted children in a public Brazillian hearing health service ? Espa?o Reouvir from the Clinicas Hospital from the Medical School from the University of S?o Paulo. Method:?Retrospective study with information from 166 medical records from children regarding the: gender; etiology, type, degree and laterality of the hearing impairment; age in the diagnosis and adaptation of the Hearing aids (HA) and accompaniment in the service. Results:?The sample was composed by 56% men and 44% women. The prevailing etiology was from multifactorial origin. The hearing loss from the neurosensory type occurred in 88,6% of the cases. The degree of moderate hearing loss was the most frequent (30,7%), symmetry in both ears was found in 69,9% of the cases and unilateral hearing loss in 2,4%. The average age in the diagnosis was of 5,46 years and in the intervention was of 6,86 years. A total of 96,98% of children had already completed the process of adaptation and 78,32% still remained in the accompaniment. Conclusion:?The program Reouvir-HCFMUSP still receives children, both for diagnosis and or intervention in a late manner. However, still is possible the realization of the accompaniment of a significant number of users of the hearing aids, enabling a process of adaptation more effective.

Heari ng aids may be a option to improve tinnitus and hearing loss. Aim: to evaluate tinnitus after one month use of BTE hearing aids with open molds and pressure vent molds in patients with symmetric sensorineural hearing loss. Methods: 50 patients seen at our Tinnitus Clinic who presented bilateral tinnitus and hearing loss underwent a randomized blind crossover clinical trial: 26 first used BTE hearing aids with open molds, and the remaining 24 first used pressure vent molds. After 30 days using the first mold and a wash-out period, the type of earmold was changed and was applied for another 30-day-period. Tinnitus evaluation was done qualitatively (improved, unchanged and worsened) and quantitatively (variation on a numeric scale from 0 to 10). Results: 82% of the cases reported improvement of tinnitus with at least one type of earmold; there was no significant difference in the reduction of discomfort due to tinnitus in the quantitative and qualitative evaluations. Although similar tinnitus control was obtained with both methods, 66% of the patients preferred the open mold. Conclusion: In a shortterm evaluation improvement of tinnitus by the use of hearing aids does not depend on earmold ventilation.

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El TRT se está instaurando ampliamente en distintos centros y proporcionando los mejores resultados en el alivio de los pacientes con acúfeno. En Brasil, dos hechos contribuyen a una “resistencia” a este método: la demora a que se empiece a percibir la ‘tan esperada’ mejora y la falta de conocimiento sobre el TRT. Nuestro objetivo es describir la experiencia con el TRT en Brasil, mostrando algunas adaptaciones del método oficial. Revisamos 161 archivos de pacientes con acúfeno que han empezado el TRT. El aná- lisis de los resultados se llevó acabo 12 meses después de la indicación del TRT separando a los pacientes en 3 grupos de acuerdo con la categoría y modo de tratamiento: a) categorías 1, 3 y 4 tratados con ‘sesiones de consejos más generadores de ruido de banda ancha’ (n=38): el acúfeno ha mejorado en el 73,3%; b) categorías 1, 3 y 4 que han rechazado los generadores de ruido y han recibido ‘sesiones de consejos más sonidos ambientales suaves’ (n=74): el acúfeno ha mejorado en el 80%; c) categoría 2 tratados con ‘sesiones de consejos, audífonos y sonidos ambientales suaves’ (n=49): solo 23 han estado de acuerdo en llevar audífonos, sin embargo 16 de ellos han presentado automáticamente enmascaramiento del acúfeno y han sido excluidos del resultado del TRT. En este estudio, los pacientes han demostrado una gran restricción en usar audífonos o generadores de ruido, así que los principios del TRT tuvieron que ser reforzados a través del uso de sonidos ambientales suaves. Aquellos que han seguido el protocolo del TRT han mostrado excelentes tasas de mejora del acúfeno.