Sosa GD, Vicente POL, López CY, Salguero SM

Language: Spanish
References: 5
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: hearing impairment affects the development and adaptation to social and family environment, its effects can be avoided if the diagnosis and medical, prosthetic and rehabilitation treatment are established early.
Objective: to expose the actions of training, research and early detection of hearing impairment executed in the province Mayabeque.
Method: "Physiology of hearing and early detection of hearing impairment": 42 health professionals and special education in the course were trained. Subsequently 67 neonates with risk factors for hearing loss were studied by using otoacoustic emissions in Ginecostétrico Hospital "Manuel Fajardo" of Guines municipality, in the last quarter of 2015.
Results: total professionals met the objectives of the study program with satisfactory results. As for risk factors, low birth weight associated with prematurity occurred in the total of newborns with positive results. In more than 50% of them, the tests were positive.
Discussion: all infants should continue to the stage of definitive diagnosis by evoked potentials. the incorporation of all infants with risk study confirm the diagnosis and to avoid perceptible delay in language and cognitive development is necessary.

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