Hearing Status of Premature Children at Hasan Sadikin General Hospital on 2018-2020
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- 10.2991/978-94-6463-280-4_8How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Hearing Loss; Premature; Brainstem Response Evoke Audiometry (BERA) s
- Abstract
- Introduction
Hearing disorder is one of the most common disorder in children causing negative effect in their development. This might be caused by several factors including prematurity, low birth weight, asphyxia, hyperbilirubinemia, and medication. Therefore, children with known risk factors as mentioned earlier should be screened for their hearing function in order to detect and treat hearing disorder as soon as possible for their better outcome.
ObjectiveThis study aims to describe hearing status in premature children in Hasan Sadikin General Hospital in Bandung, Indonesia
MethodA descriptive retrospective study was conducted in Hasan Sadikin General Hospital using medical record of children with history of prematurity that have been performed hearing examination on 2018-2020 with Brainstem Response Evoke Audiometry (BERA).
ResultThere were 406 children included in the study. It was shown that 40,4% children had normal hearing while 59,6% children had hearing disorder with 58,1% sensorineural hearing loss and the most common degree of hearing disorder is very severe (93,3%). Hearing disorder in subject with history of low birth weight, asphyxia and hyperbilirubinemia were higher, with 63.3%, 75.4%, and 64.78% consecutively.
ConclusionThe incidence of hearing loss occurs in more than half of children with history of prematurity. Early detection and treatment of hearing disorder are important to be conducted in children with history of prematurity so they can have better outcome and quality of life.
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TY - CONF AU - Wijana AU - Ghina Aghniya PY - 2023 DA - 2023/10/31 TI - Hearing Status of Premature Children at Hasan Sadikin General Hospital on 2018-2020 BT - Proceedings of the 19 th Otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery national congress (PERHATIKL 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 39 EP - 45 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-280-4_8 DO - 10.2991/978-94-6463-280-4_8 ID - 2023 ER -