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High Risk Indicators
High Risk Indicators associated with Childhood hearing loss
Question | Answer |
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High Risk factors associated with | permanent congenital, delayed-onset, or progressive hearing loss in childhood |
1 | caregiver concerns regarding hearing, speech, language or developmental delay |
2 | family history of permanent childhood hearing loss |
3 | neonatal intensive care for more than 5 days or any of the following: ECMO, assisted venitlation, exposure to ototoxic medications or loop diuretics and hyperbilirubinemia |
4 | in utero infections such as CMV, herpes, rubella, syphilis, and toxoplasmosis |
5 | craniofacial anomalies, including those that involved the pinna, ear canal, ear tags, ear pits, and temporal bone anomalies |
6 | physical findings, such as a white forelock, that are associated with a syndrome known to include a sensorineural or permanent conductive hearing loss |
7 | syndromes associated with hearing loss: e.g. neurofibromatosis, osteopetrosis, Usher syndrome; also Waardenburg, Alport, Pendred, Jervell and Lange and Nielson |
8 | neurodegenerative disorders such as Hunter syndrome, or sensory motor neuropathies, such as Friedreich ataxia and Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome |
9 | culture-positive postnatal infections associated with sensorineural hearing loss, including confirmed bacterial and viral meningitis |
10 | head trauma, especially basal skull/temporal bone fracture that requires hospitalization |
11 | chemotherapy |