Avtor/Urednik		Kekić, Branko; Marn, Borut
Naslov		Newborn hearing loss screening in Croatia
Tip		članek
Vir		Med Razgl
Vol. in št.		Letnik 43, št. Suppl 3
Leto izdaje		2004
Obseg		str. 93-7
Jezik		eng
Abstrakt		Congenital permanent hearing impairment is considered one of the most frequent congenital disorders with frequently delayed diagnosis and intervention, so an active approach of the health service is a prerequisite for the secondary prevention of this disorder. Universal (and not only high risk) newborn hearing screening has been widely accepted as a prerequisite of early diagnosis of congenital hearing impairment. The program was first initiated in Croatia at the beginning of February 2002, in a Zagreb maternity unit with about 3,000 newborns a year. The results were excellent and by the end of 2002, universal newborn hearing screening was started in all of 34 maternity units in Croatia. Modification of a two-staged, »bilocal« and »bimodal« model has been used for this purpose: stage I is performed at the maternity unit before discharge by registering automated transient evoked otoacoustic emission (A-OAE), and stage II at the same maternity unit or in an audiology department using the same method or by registering automated auditory brainstem response (A-ABR). Initial statistical results have shown that in a group of 3,070 newborns, 5.3% were positive either on one or both ears, necessitating the second stage of screening. The prevalence of a confirmed, significant bilateral permanent hearing impairment was 2.6/1,000.
Deskriptorji		HEARING DISORDERS HEARING TESTS AUDIOMETRY, EVOKED RESPONSE INFANT, NEWBORN CROATIA