This presentation describes the importance of neonatal hearing screening, ie. to check if babies can hear. Only if babies are checked and diagnosed early can they undergo best optimal treatment. This presentation was given at the first Monsana Conference in St. Petersburg. Please also check the blog http://www.monsana.net/firstconference
1. Neonatal Hearing Screening
a short overview of the situation in
Western Europe
Dr. Dr. h.c. Monika Lehnhardt, Germany
May 2009
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7. ECDC- NHS
Milan, 15 - 16 May 1998
European Consensus Statement on
Neonatal Hearing
Screening
Finalised at the European Consensus Development
Conference on Neonatal Hearing Screening
15-16 May 1998, Milan
Chairman: F. Grandori
20. Infants cannot complain of lack of hearing, and cannot
seek interventions we would surely not deny ourselves.
We can and we must do their complaining for them!
Dr. Martyn Hyde