Universal Hearing Screening for Babies: Recommendations for the Organization and Performance of the Universal Screening of Babies for Hereditary Hearing Disorders in Germany

Gross, Manfred; Freitag, Ulrike; Heß, Markus; Hesse, V.; Hildmann, A.; Hildmann, H.; Hippel, K.; Lenarz, T; Lindbauer-Eisenach, U.; Plinkert, Peter K.; Pohlandt, Frank; Ptok, M.; Reuter, G.; Rossi, Robert J.; Schnitzer, Susanne; Thyen, Ute; Vetter, K.

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“…Severe to profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is present in 1 to 3 out of 1000 newborns and 2 to 4 out of 100 infants who require neonatal intensive care (American Academy of Pediatrics 1999) [1][2][3]. To avoid significant delay of speech and language acquisition as well as auditory maturation followed by undetected congenital hearing loss (HL), an early identification and intervention is required [4].…”

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Monitoring of the auditory pathway maturation after early intervention during the first year of life in infants with sensorineural hearing loss

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Haumann

Roßberg

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Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol

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Purpose The objective of this study was to investigate the auditory pathway maturation monitored by auditory brainstem responses (ABR) in infants with hearing loss during the first year of life. ABR were used to estimate hearing thresholds and the effect of early intervention strategies using hearing aids (HA). Methods Click-evoked ABRs were measured in 102 infants aged from 0 to 12 months to determine their individual auditory threshold. Early therapy intervention was recommended before 12 months of age and analyzed. To evaluate the effect of hearing amplification on auditory maturation, different subgroups of infants with moderate hearing loss were analyzed and the auditory pathway maturation was determined based on IPL I–V shortening. Results Overall, 110 ears (54.0% of 204 ears) with mild to profound HL showed threshold changes of 10 dB up to 60 dB in the follow-up ABR testing. HA were prescribed at the age of 3.8 ± 3.9 months. Cochlear implantation (CI) was performed in cases of repeated profound HL at the age of 9.9 months ± 4.5 months. A significant shortening of IPL I–V in all subgroups of infants (with and without risk factors) who received HA was shown and assumed auditory pathway maturation. Conclusion An early intervention using optimally fitted HA influenced auditory pathway maturation and may lead to improvements of hearing thresholds during the first year of life in infants. This study underscores the importance of not only providing HAs to infants, but also controlling for hearing threshold changes ensuring that HAs provide the optimal level of intervention or CI is indicated.

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Monitoring of the auditory pathway maturation after early intervention during the first year of life in infants with sensorineural hearing loss

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Roßberg

et al. 2020

Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol

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Technologisch-chirurgischer Fortschritt bei der Cochlear Implantation

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Qualitätssicherung eines universellen Neugeborenen-Hörscreenings

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Statutory implementation of a universal newborn hearing screening requires a continuous quality assurance monitoring. Therefore, at the Annual Meeting in 2007, the members of the German Society of Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology passed a recommendation on measures of quality assurance applied to newborn hearing screening. This recommendation describes the procedures, performance, location, time frame, and technical prerequisites of the screening and of potentially necessary follow-ups, the definition of hearing loss to be detected, the performing and responsible professional groups and their qualifications for the screening, the regulation of repeat and control screenings, the confirmation diagnostics and initiation of therapy, the information of parents, the documentation of screening results, the aims and organization of a tracking system, the tasks of regional screening centers and of a supraregional institution for the quality assurance of the hearing screening, the central collection of person and screening-related quality relevant data, and the accessibility of defined data sets as predisposition for cost analyses and quality reports.

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Universal Hearing Screening for Babies: Recommendations for the Organization and Performance of the Universal Screening of Babies for Hereditary Hearing Disorders in Germany

Cited by 9 publications

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Monitoring of the auditory pathway maturation after early intervention during the first year of life in infants with sensorineural hearing loss

Monitoring of the auditory pathway maturation after early intervention during the first year of life in infants with sensorineural hearing loss

Technologisch-chirurgischer Fortschritt bei der Cochlear Implantation

Qualitätssicherung eines universellen Neugeborenen-Hörscreenings

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