Challenges faced by Indian parents in raising a child with a cochlear implant - Impact on communication outcomes.

Objectives: The objectives of the present study were to understand the parental views regarding stress, and its affect language, and auditory outcomes. The study also aims to understand the relationship between parental stress, and child's age.

Design, Setting And Participants: A retrospective study was performed at a tertiary medical hospital.

Congenital rubella syndrome surveillance in India, 2016-21: Analysis of five years surveillance data.

Background: In India, facility-based surveillance for congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) was initiated in 2016 to estimate the burden and monitor the progress made in rubella control. We analyzed the surveillance data for 2016-2021 from 14 sentinel sites to describe the epidemiology of CRS.

Method: We analyzed the surveillance data to describe the distribution of suspected and laboratory confirmed CRS patients by time, place and person characteristics.

Effect of face masks on speech understanding: A clinical perspective during speech audiometry.

The objective was to measure the effect of various face masks on speech recognition threshold and the word recognition score in the presence of varying background noise levels. 20 normal-hearing adult subjects (a total of 40 ears) participated. Pure tone audiometry followed by speech recognition threshold and word recognition score at the most comfortable level in varying signal-to-noise ratios (SNR0, SNR10, and SNR15) using surgical, pleated cloth, and N95 masks.

Childhood neurodevelopmental outcomes of survivors of acute bilirubin encephalopathy: A retrospective cohort study.

Background: Reports on childhood neurodevelopmental and neurosensory outcomes following acute bilirubin encephalopathy from low- and middle-income countries are scarce.

Aim: This study aimed to analyze the neurodevelopmental and neurosensory outcomes of survivors of acute bilirubin encephalopathy.

Study Design: Retrospective cohort.

Epidemiology of Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS) in India, 2016-18, based on data from sentinel surveillance.

Background: Government of India is committed to eliminate measles and control rubella/congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) by 2020. In 2016, CRS surveillance was established in five sentinel sites. We analyzed surveillance data to describe the epidemiology of CRS in India.

Sentinel Surveillance for Congenital Rubella Syndrome - India, 2016-2017.

Rubella infection during pregnancy can result in miscarriage, fetal death, stillbirth, or a constellation of congenital malformations known as congenital rubella syndrome (CRS). The 11 countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region are committed to the elimination of measles and control of rubella and CRS by 2020. Until 2016, when the Government of India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Indian Council of Medical Research initiated surveillance for CRS in five sentinel sites, India did not conduct systematic surveillance for CRS.

Audiological and Electrophysiological Changes in Patients with Vitiligo.

The study was conducted to evaluate the audiological and electrophysiological findings in patients with Vitiligo and to compare the findings with otologically and audiologically normal controls. Study group included 50 subjects (25 Males, 25 Females) with Vitiligo (Mean age-27.4 years) and control group contained 40 age-matched normal hearing subjects.

Effects of cardiopulmonary bypass surgery on auditory function: a preliminary study.

Hearing loss has been reported as a complication following cardiac surgery with extracorporeal circulation. Preoperative hearing testing is not commonly done in these procedures, so preoperative and postoperative hearing loss, if any, may occur unnoticed. 30 subjects in the age range of 50-70 with a mean age of 60.

Relationship between severity of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and extent of auditory dysfunction.

Objective: To find out the relationship between severity of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and extent of auditory dysfunction.

Background: Most of the studies have taken the subjects with TBI as one group without taking into account the extent of head injury viz. mild, moderate and severe.

Dynamics of hearing status in closed head injury.

Hearing impairment can be one of the more subtle deficits seen after closed head injury (CHI), and it may not be diagnosed until late in the recovery phase if at all. Most studies have assessed patients immediately after CHI. Repeated assessments at regular intervals were not performed in the majority of studies done to assess whether any initial hearing loss regressed or progressed.