[Screening of deafness at birth (author's transl)].

The authors studied different parameters of the hearing test proposed to detect deafness among new-borns. These parameters belong to the technic of the test itself (intensity of stimulus, repetition of the test five minutes later, during the day and the following days, characters of the reactions) and to the infant (gestational age birth weight age, disease). They found that the noise in the resuscitation room and in the usual incubators is high and perhaps injurious. Following their own experience and the results published in France and abroad, they think that the test is difficult and cannot be generalised for the moment to all newborns.