Pediatria pre prax 6/2014
Hearing-impaired child at the pediatrician office from a phoniatrician‘s point of view
Early diagnosis of hearing impairment is of crucial importance in a child’s life. For this reason, a pediatrician should perform a hearing exam, along with other necessary specialised tests, immediately after he/she had identified risks of hearing impairment in the newborn‘s anamnesis or had ben warned by the parents about a possible problem. Both the diagnosis of congenital or acquired hearing impairment after birth, and the installment of hearing aids, should take place by the end of the first year in a child’s life at the latest.
Keywords: earing exam, transiently evoked otoacoustic emmisions, brainstem evoked response audiometry, steady state evoked potentials, audiometry examination, hearing aids, cochlear implantation.
