Outcome of the universal neonatal hearing screening in Croatia 2003-2014

Marn, Borut; Kekić, Branko

doi:10.13112/pc.2016.2

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“…With the introduction of the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program (UNHSP), which provides early detection of hearing impairment in children, hearing evaluation techniques have significantly changed. Nowadays, it is necessary to diagnose the type and degree of hearing impairment, as well as con-figuration of hearing loss in children up to 3 months of age, in order to start early treatment and provide adequate hearing aid by the age of 6 months 1,2 . Early detection of hearing impairment in newborns and infants is important in order to achieve linguistic competences and language development in deaf and hearing impaired children.…”

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Comparison of Hearing Threshold Estimation using Auditory Steady State Responses and Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials in Children

Lemajić-Komazec

Komazec

Cupic

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Current recommendations proposed by pediatric audiologists are to commence with hearing amplification in children aged 6 months and above, after previous determination of the type and degree of hearing impairment and audiometric configuration. The goal of this study was to compare results obtained by click-evoked auditory brainstem response (c-ABR) and auditory steady state response (ASSR) in a group of children. This study included 68 children with different degrees of hearing impairment evaluated by c-ABR and ASSR. It is well-known that the c-ABR threshold highly correlates with behavioral hearing level at 2 kHz. In our study, the correlation between the c-ABR and ASSR thresholds in the whole sample was 0.58, 0.73, 0.97, 0.96, 0.95, 0.97; in the group of children with c-ABR thresholds up to 40 dBHL, it was 0.42, 0.73, 0.86, 0.74, 0.81, 0.81; and in the group with c-ABR thresholds worse than 40 dBHL, it was 0.46, 0.56, 0.89, 0.83, 0.85, 0.89 at 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 1-4, 2-4 kHz, respectively. Individual differences between the c-ABR and ASSR thresholds in the whole sample were up to 95, 90, 20, 25 dB at 0.5, 1, 2, 4 kHz, respectively. Study results indicated that there was strong correlation between the c-ABR and ASSR thresholds at 2, 4, 1-4, 2-4 kHz. The ASSR can be used as a valuable clinical tool and an excellent complementary method which, along with other audiologic techniques, provides more accurate hearing threshold estimation at an early age in children.

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confidence: 99%