To Evaluate the Pre and Post Shunt Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Hydrocephalus Patients

[Clinical protocol: audiological assessment of infants in Russian Federation. Part II]

This is the second part of the previously published clinical protocol of audiological assessment in infants. The goal of the protocol is unification approaches to audiological diagnosis of the infants. The following sections were included in the second part of the protocol: behavioral testing in infants, testing sequence, duration of the examination and necessity in follow-up, hearing assessment in special cases (premature children, children with congenital infections, after meningitis, with external ear abnormalities, single-sided deafness, with hydrocephalus and shunts, with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder, with mild hearing loss and otitis media with effusion), medical report.