About this item

Issue date:
1 August 2021
Status:
Current
Corporate Author:
National Screening Unit,
Document date:
1 August 2021
Type:
Guidance,
Topic:
Children and young people,
Copyright status:

© Crown Copyright, Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This document updates the audiology guidelines concerning babies with meningitis and meningoencephalitis (3.3.3 Audiological management of babies with meningitis) found on pages 6, 13 & 14 of the 2016 UNHSEIP Diagnostic and amplification protocols.

The full updated document will be published once a complete review of the protocols has concluded.

This change is due to the urgent assessment required to identify severe/profound hearing loss, which may require cochlear implant(s) before any cochlear ossification takes place and mandates a direct referral to audiology by paediatric and/or NICU/SCBU staff instead of via UNHSEIP screeners.