Open AccessUniversal newborn hearing screening in the Italian Region of Sicily in 2018
Author(s) -
S Ferlito,
Antonino Maniaci,
Salvatore Cocuzza,
Ignazio La Mantia,
Paola Di Mauro,
Graziella Poli,
Luigi Maiolino,
S. Coco,
Federico Merlino,
Marina Maltese,
Margherita Ragliani,
Michele Russo,
Alessandro Gulino,
Carmen Azieli,
Francesco Martines,
Francesco Galletti,
Luciano Bubbico
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
acta otorhinolaryngologica italica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.888
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1827-675X
pISSN - 0392-100X
DOI - 10.14639/0392-100x-n1162
Subject(s) - medicine , hearing loss , pediatrics , auditory brainstem response , epidemiology , otoacoustic emission , audiology
We have clarified the role of Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening (UNHS) for both early diagnosis and rapid treatment in order to improve the prognosis of the deaf child and reduce patient management costs. Although in Sicily UNHS has been progressively implemented, there is scarce data in the literature on this matter. Therefore, the main objective was to collect in the year 2018 the following data: number of newborns screened for hearing loss, number of infants "referred" to transiently evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAE), number of infants with pathologic auditory brainstem response (ABR) and number of infants affected by permanent hearing loss.