ACCESS THE SPANISH EDITION This CODEPEH document analyses and aims to provide answers, based on the most recent scientific evidence, on how to recruit newborns for inclusion in the screening process, what information to provide to the family prior to the test, how to improve the competencies and functioning of the team assigned to […]

  ACCESS THE SPANISH EDITION Ototoxicity is defined as reversible or irreversible damage to the inner ear caused by various substances called ototoxic substances that cause hypoacusis and/or disruption of the vestibular system. Permanent hypoacusis significantly affects quality of life and is of particular concern in children. There is often a lack or delay in […]

  ACCESS THE SPANISH EDITION  In order to complete the work started in 2018 in which the child hearing screening process was reviewed and updated, in its level 1 Detection, this document completes the review and update of the early detection programs for child deafness, focusing on the phase diagnoses, decision-making regarding treatment and the follow-up process, taking the […]

  ACCESS THE SPANISH EDITION  Early detection programmes for congenital hearing loss have been successfully extended, especially in developed countries, overcoming conceptual errors argued against their implementation or critical to their effectiveness. However, some difficulties and weaknesses are identified in them: the detection of late-developing hearing loss and the percentage of children who did not pass […]

  ACCESS THE SPANISH EDITION Significant advances fundamentally in the field of molecular genetics, as well as in imaging diagnosis, together with the lack of a consensus-based protocol to guide and complete the diagnostic process once neonatal screening has confirmed hearing loss, led to this work by the Commission for the Early Detection of Deafness […]