Hearing loss in patients discharged from IC

Not Applicable

Conditions: Health Condition 1: H902- Conductive hearing loss, unspecifiedHealth Condition 2: H908- Mixed conductive and sensorineuralhearing loss, unspecifiedHealth Condition 3: H905- Unspecified sensorineural hearingloss

Registration Number: CTRI/2022/01/039539

Lead Sponsor: Other

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Open to Recruitment

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 0

Inclusion Criteria

Conscious, oriented and able to communicate to audiometric test at the time of discharge

Critically ill patients with age >15 years with admission sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score >6

with history of shock requiring vasopressor support and/or respiratory failure requiring ventilatory support (invasive/non-invasive) during their ICU stay

Exclusion Criteria

Any patient unable to cooperate for hearing examination

Previous history of hearing loss or any ear pathology

Head trauma/ trauma involving the ear

Diagnosed CNS pathologies in the discharge summary : Cerebrovascular accident (CVA), acute/ chronic meningoencephalitis, and any other CNS pathology thought to affect hearing pathways ( as deemed by the investigator)

Study & Design

Study Type: Observational

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
To estimate the prevalence of hearing deficits in patients at and following ICU discharge through pure tone audiometry (PTA) in decibels (dB) to assess the hearing level, the degree and type of deafness. <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>Timepoint: To estimate the prevalence of hearing deficits in patients at the of ICU discharge and one month following ICU discharge for those with hearing deficits through pure tone audiometry (PTA) in decibels (dB) to assess the hearing level, the degree and type of deafness. <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures