PURPOSE: to identify the hearing loss risk indicators in newborns at a public hospital facility in Campinas - São Paulo, in the period from July 2007 to January 2008. METHODS: sample composed of 589 protocols of newborns evaluated in the Program of Universal Hearing Screening during the considered period. RESULTS: 152 protocols (25.8%) showed hearing loss risk indicators. Among them, the most prevalent were, in decreasing order: family antecedents (26.3 %); Apgar index from 0 to 4 in the first minute (23.6%); ototoxic drug use (23.6 %), incubator permanence (22.3%), hyperbilirubinemia of the newborn (21.7%) and permanence in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (18.4%). CONCLUSION: the number of risk indicators found per newborn ranged from 1 to 6. Among the newborns with hearing loss risk indicators, just one baby failed in the three evaluations conducted in the hearing screening program. This baby's protocol showed three hearing loss risk indicators.
Audiology; Risk Factors; Screening
