Hearing Thresholds at High Frequencies: Age as a Predictor of Values.

 The audiological evaluation has the main objective of determining the integrity of the auditory system. Pure tone audiometry is a standardized behavioral procedure that aims to investigate auditory thresholds to describe auditory sensitivity. Despite being recognized since the mid-1960s, high frequency audiometry is still little used and explored in clinical practice, and its use is more considered as an audiological monitoring tool or as a research tool.

Effects on communication due to face mask use: an integrative review.

Objectives: to integrate evidence from studies on auditory perceptual and speech production effects in communication situations with face mask use.

Methods: an integrative literature review, in MEDLINE, Cochrane Library and Embase databases. The guiding question was: what effects on communication (perceptual-auditory and speech production) occur with face mask use?

Results: searches in electronic databases resulted in 1,478 studies and filtering resulted in 29 final studies.

Outcomes of a universal neonatal hearing screening program of 9941 newborns over a one-year period in Campinas, Brazil.

Objectives: To characterize the outcomes of a universal neonatal hearing screening program in Brazil.

Methods: Retrospective documentary analysis of the hearing screening of the neonates born in the hospital from August 2019 to July 2020. The universal neonatal hearing screening program performed the examination of TEOAE in newborn without risk factors for hearing loss and TEOAE and aABR in neonates with risk factors for hearing loss.