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High Risk Indicators
High Risk Indicators associated with Childhood hearing loss
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |