Hearing Screening in 3,371 NICU Newborns
WANG Xiaoli
WU Dan
LI Danhui
ZHAO Yali
HE Dinghua
Abstract：Objective To report factors in newborns failing hearing screening by analyzing automated auditory brainstem response (AABR) results from 3,371 newborns in the NICU at the Hunan Provincial Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital.Methods A total of 3,371 newborns in the NICU,born betwenn Jan 2016 and Dec 2016,were in-cluded in this study.All were screened by AABR.Rates of hearing screening failure and possible influential factors of were investigated.Those who failed to pass the hearing screening were followed up.Results There was no significant difference in the rate of failure between males and females (χ2=0.95,P=0.329).The failures were more common with multiple births (χ2=8.152,P=0.004),infection (χ2=13.845,P=0.000),hyperbilirubinemia (χ2=43.266,P=0.000),prema-ture birth(χ2=9.399,P=0.002)and low birth weight(χ2=5.076,P=0.024)were significantly higher than without these fac-tors;while the pass rate of the right ear was higher than that of the left ear(χ2=104.25,P=0.000).Hearing impairment was diagnosed by diagnostic audiology evaluation within 3 months of age in 13 cases.Conclusions Left ear,multiple births,infection,hyperbilirubinemia,premature birth and low birth weight appear to be risk factors for failing hearing screening.
Keywords：NICUHearing ScreeningRisk Factors
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 692-697 )