TY  - JOUR
TT  - Newborn hearing screening program in Ankara Polatlı State Hospital:  six-year outcome
AU  - Renda, Levent
AU  - Özer, Eşref
AU  - Renda, Rahime
PY  - 2012
DA  - October
JF  - Pamukkale Medical Journal
JO  - Pam Tıp Derg
PB  - Pamukkale Üniversitesi
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1308-0865
SP  - 123
EP  - 127
IS  - 3
KW  - Yenidoğan
KW  - işitme kaybı
KW  - tarama programı
N2  - OBJECTIVE: To present the results of the newborn hearing screening program conducted at Polatlı State Hospital, Ankara, Turkey, and to discuss them in accordance with relevant literature.METHODS: All the newborn babies born at Polatlı State Hospital between the years of 2006 and2011 have been included in the study, and the study has been conducted at three stages.RESULTS: Bilateral hearing loss in 14 babies and unilateral hearing loss in 3 babies have been detected, making up 17 sensory-neural hearing loss cases in total (0.15%)CONCLUSION: Congenital hearing loss has an impact not only on normal speech and language but also oncognitive and behavioural development in babies. Newborn hearing screening programs enable physicians todetect early hearing loss defects and thus to launch early treatment schemes. The program can be regarded assuccessful if diagnosis is to be confirmed in the first three months and a treatment program is to be launched in the first six months, too. As the number of hearing screening tests becomes widespread in Turkey, the number of the diagnosed and treated babies suffering from hearing loss is on the increase as well.
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/patd/article/392762
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/422493
ER  -