Risk Factors for Sensorineural Hearing Loss and Auditory Maturation in Children Admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Who Recovered?

Pietro SalvagoAngelo Immordino Fulvio PlesciaMarianna MuciaAndrea AlberaFrancesco Martines

Published in: Children (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)

Our study supports the trend toward recognizing worse prognoses and slower maturation processes among NICU children who suffer from severe to profound SNHL. Caution must be taken when deciding on earlier cochlear implantation.

Keyphrases

intensive care unit
young adults
early onset
intellectual disability
mechanical ventilation
acute respiratory distress syndrome