aarogya.com
  • Home
  • Complementary Medicine
    • Ayurveda
    • Homeopathy
    • Naturopathy
    • Acupressure
    • Acupuncture
    • Aromatherapy
    • Batch Flower Remedies
    • Home Remedies
    • Massage
    • Yoga
    • Meditation
    • Reiki
    • Bodywork
    • Medical Palmistry
  • Conditions & Diseases
    • Acute Diarrheal Disease
    • Appendicitis
    • Blindness
    • Brucellosis
    • Chicken Pox
    • Conjunctivitis
    • Dysentery
    • Hookworm
    • Japanese Encephalitis
    • Lymphatic Filariasis
    • Plague
    • Rubella
    • Typhoid Fever
    • Yellow Fever
    • Allergy
    • Arthritis
    • Blood Pressure
    • Computer Health Hazards
    • Chikungunya Fever
    • Dengue
    • Guinea Worm
    • Influenza
    • Leprosy
    • Malaria
    • Poliomyelitis
    • Tetanus
    • Whooping Cough
    • Viral Hepatitis
    • Amebiasis
    • Asthma
    • Bronchitis
    • Diagnostic Tests
    • Cholera
    • Diphtheria
    • Hepatitis
    • Irritable Bowel Syndrome
    • Leptospirosis
    • Measles
    • Rabies
    • Tuberculosis
    • Yaws
  • Family Health
    • Children's Health
    • Diet & Nutrition
    • First Aid
    • Fitness
    • Humor & Trivia
    • Men's Health
    • Preventive Health
    • Senior's Health
    • Senior Citizen Corner
    • Teen’s Health
    • Vets and Pets
    • Women’s Health
  • Health Resources
    • Blood Donation
    • Career Opportunities
    • Daily Health Tips
    • Health Programs
    • Featured Hospitals
    • Medical Education
    • Health Professional's Negligence
    • Medical Tourism
    • Video Eye
    • Rural Health
    • Patients' Rights Forum
  • Insurance
    • Euthanasia
    • Health Insurance
    • Health Insurance Policies
    • Insurance Companies
    • Medical Ethics
    • Medical Jurisprudence
    • Research
    • Telemedicine
    • Compare Health Insurance
  • Sex & Sexuality
    • What is Sex & Sexuality?
    • FAQs
    • Marriage & Pregnancy
    • Sex Education
  • Support Groups
    • Addiction
    • Aids
    • Cancer
    • Epilepsy
    • Swine Flu
    • Blood Search
    • Vivah
    • Health Directory
    • Alzheimer's Disease
    • Medical Support Groups
    • Cardiology
    • Depression
    • Depression Screening Test
    • Diabetes
    • Disability
    • Kidney
    • Obesity
    • Pregnancy
    • Schizophrenia
    • Vitiligo
Aarogya.com
Marathi | Gujarati | Register | Login
  • Home
  • Articles
  • E.N.T.
  • BERA Study in 150 Children Under Five Years Age

BERA Study in 150 Children Under Five Years Age

  • Print
Details
Hits: 23304
Page 1 of 2
BERA – Brainstem Auditory Evoked Responses
Dr. K. K. Desarda
Professor and Head, Otolaryngology.

Dr. A. N. Sangekar
Audiologist and Speech Pathologist,
KEM Hospital, Pune 411 011, Maharashtra, India.

BERA (BSER OR BAEP) has proved to be a useful tool in diagnosing hearing impairments in children which could be conductive or sensorineural in nature. Thanks to early detection, rehabilitative procedures could be started early which will help speech and language development.

We have studied 150 cases below five years of age, and our observations are recorded with case history profiles like high risks, referral for adaptions, congenital malformations and delayed speech. We feel BERA is the only tool which can present an accurate picture of hearing sensitivity.

Introduction
Hearing problems are common among the children which could be conductive or sensorineural in nature. Early diagnosis of hearing impairment is important as the rehabilitative procedure can be started early which will help speech and language development.

Various audiological test procedures are used to assess the hearing sensitivity of children. Some of the common ones are: Behavioral Observation.
  • Free Field Audiometry.
  • Peep Show.
  • Pediatric Tester.
All the above techniques are useful in estimating hearing sensitivity but have their own limitations. The major difficulties involved in the use of these techniques are:
  • Co–operation of children.
  • Consistency of responses.
  • Subjectivity on the part of the tester.
  • Assessment of children with multiple handicaps.
BERA, (BSER or BAEP) has proved to be a useful objective tool in diagnosing hearing impairments in children. The use of Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) (1) audiometry as an audiological tool focused on two principal areas:
  • The assessment of hearing sensitivity and slope of loss, (if any) in patients, who are unable or unwilling to participate in standard psychoacoustic test procedures.
  • To study the neurological integrity of acoustic nerve and brainstem pathway.
To achieve this objective, the paradigm employed is to collect appropriate ABR data for a case, analyze it and compare the data with relevant norms and draw inferences.

Material and Methods
In this study, an attempt is made to study the findings of BERA in children below the age of five years. These children reported to us or were referred to us for the following reasons:
  • Delay in speech and language development.
  • Inconsistent responses to sound or inability to respond to sound.
  • History of high risk factors – Deafness in the family, consanguineous marriage, difficult/obstructed labor, pre–term/premature labor, administration of antibiotic drugs during pregnancy, diseases contracted by the mother such as Rubella, Meningitis or Hyperbilirubinemia.
  • To rule out hearing impairment before adoption.
  • To rule out the extent of malformation anomalies especially in Atresia.
  • 1
  • 2

1

E.N.T.

  • Ways to Keep Your Ear Healthy
  • Noise Pollution
  • Management of Myasthenia Gravis in ENT Practice
  • BERA Study in 150 Children Under Five Years Age
  • Transtympanic Gentamicin Therapy
  • Tragal Perichondrium and Cartilage in Reconstructive Tympanoplasty
  • Surgery of Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma
  • Cryosurgery in Otolaryngology Practice
  • Inverted Papilloma of Nose and Paranasal Sinuses
  • Endoscopic Cartilage Myringoplasty (Video)
  • National Programs for Prevention of Deafness and Hearing Impairment
  • Research, Teaching and Development of Collaborative Activities by WHO
Introducing Digital Practice for Doctors & Healthcare professionals
Swine Flu
National Award for Outstanding achievement by a Non-Professional - Tushar Sampat
Health Professional's Negligence
Health Professional's Negligence
Records of published articles in the newspapers helps common people about precautions to be taken while seeking the services from health professionals and also helps health professionals to rectify the negligence.
read more…
Specialties
Common Symptoms


Aarogya Network

aarogya.com aims to be India’s leading comprehensive health information portal. The site has sections, which cover almost all the medical specialties and give useful information on various diseases. To enhance its reach, the content is available in Indian languages too. We were the first health website to introduce online support groups. Addiction support and Epilepsy support are examples of some very active and vibrant communities.

» Click here to see all our support groups

Subscribe to Our Newsletter

 Get health related new information.

Pune Aarogya
Digital Media Dedicated to Healthcare of Punekars

Health Tools

  • Health Directory
  • Message Board
  • Health Calculators
  • Depression Screening Test

About Aarogya.com

aarogya.com aims to be India’s leading comprehensive health information portal. The site has sections, which cover almost all the medical specialties

Read more...

Suggestions

This is YOUR site, so if you have suggestions or feedback on how we can improve it for you, please let us know! We do our best to keep up!

Read more...

User Comments

“My name is Paulette Conners and I just had to send you an email thanking you since one of the pages on your site was very helpful!”

  • About Us
  • Company Profile
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Feedback
  • Disclaimer
  • Sitemap
  • Invite Your Friends

© 2017 www.aarogya.com. All Rights Reserved.