Comparing Newborn Hearing Test Batteries: TEOAE and A-ABR – Pilot Study

Article Sidebar

PDF
Published: Dec 9, 2017
Versions:
2017-12-09 (1)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18844/gjapas.v0i8.2786

Main Article Content

Abstract


The aim of the newborn hearing screening programme is early detection of hearing loss. Transient evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAE) and automised auditory brainstem response (A-ABR) are effective, objective and valuable test batteries for newborn hearing screening, and they should be used together. The purpose of this study is to determine which test battery is more accurate and can be used as the gold standard. A total of 933 newborn children were included in this study, of which 602 were girls and 331 boys. 622 of them were screened with TEOAE, while 311 with A-ABR. 31 of the newborn screened with A-ABR and 27 of those screened with TEOAE were referred in the hearing screening programme. The results showed that out of 933, 17 subjects had hearing loss. The hearing loss rate was 1.8%; 12 of the newborn screened with AABR and 5 of those screened with TEOAE had hearing loss.

Keywords: Hearing loss, TEOAE, ABR, newborn hearing screening.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Article Details

How to Cite
Comparing Newborn Hearing Test Batteries: TEOAE and A-ABR – Pilot Study. (2017). New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Advances in Pure and Applied Sciences, 2017(8), 36–41. https://doi.org/10.18844/gjapas.v0i8.2786
Issue
No. 8 (2017): Selected Papers of 4th World Conference on Health Sciences (HSCI-2017)
Section
Articles
Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).