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ABSTRACT INFORMATION
Title: 'Guidelines and Protocols for Testing Children with High Risk Factors.' Track: 2-Audiological Assessment and Intervention Audience: Primary Audience: Secondary Audience: Tertiary Audeince: Keyword(s): High risk, guidelines, hearing loss Learning Objectives: Determine the importance of high risk follow-up testing. Determine which protocol is best for a facility. Abstract: Guidelines and Protocols for Testing Children with High Risk Factors Track: Audiological Assessment and Intervention Authors: Jana Ziegberman, Au.D.1, Marcy Chant, Au.D.2, Margaret Toro, Au.D.2 Affiliations: 1) Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 2) Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 3) Brigham and Women Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Presenter: Jana Ziegberman, Au.D. and Marcy Chant, Au.D. Protocols and guidelines are essential for any program to work efficiently. Recently, the JCIH Guidelines for newborns with high risk factors were revised. Many facilities were pleased to see a definitive guideline while others found the guidelines to be too vague and filled with the potential to miss many babies and toddlers who have late onset hearing loss. JCIH Guidelines require that all neonates with high risk factors be seen for follow-up diagnostic testing prior to the age of 24 to 30 months, sooner if the neonate has specific high risk factors such as cytomegalovirus, syndromes associated with progressive hearing loss, and neurodegenerative disorders. Although “sooner” leaves room for professional judgment in individual cases, program follow-up protocols for high risk newborns may have wide variability. We will discuss the JCIH guidelines for late onset hearing loss and how they affect providing optimal services to children with high risk factors. We will also look at three different Boston hospitals and see how they used the JCIH Guidelines for the follow up of their high risk for late onset hearing loss newborns. In combination with this, we will look at several cases of successes and failures in the protocols and encourage dialogue on this topic. We hope this will help illustrate the need for more discussion about these children and the necessity of getting appropriate audiological services for them. Key words: High risk, late onset hearing loss, JCIH Guidelines Handouts: Handout is not Available
SPEAKER INFORMATION
PRESENTER(S): Jana Ziegberman - Boston Medical Center      Credentials: Au.D, FAAA, CCC-A       Dr. Ziegberman been the Pediatric Audiologist and Newborn Hearing Screen Coordinator at Boston Medical Center for the last 5 years. She is also well versed in pediatric audiological evaluations, including sedated and nonsedated ABR's She received her audiology doctoral degree at Nova Southeastern University. Marcy Chant - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center      Credentials: Au.D., CCC-A, FAAA       She is the Newborn Hearing Screen Coordinator and the Pediatric Audiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.   AUTHOR(S):