Complex Cochlear Implant Cases : Management and Troubleshooting.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sevier, Joshua D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cochlear implants.

Cochlear Implantation.

Postoperative Complications--prevention & control.

Cochlear Implants.

Medical Subjects:

Cochlear Implantation.

Postoperative Complications--prevention & control.

Cochlear Implants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Plural Publishing, Incorporated, 2022.

Summary:

Not all cochlear implant cases present in a traditional manner, which calls for audiologists to seek a second opinion in more intricate and difficult cases. Complex Cochlear Implant Cases: Management and Troubleshooting offers both new and experienced cochlear implant audiologists the opportunity to tap into the knowledge and experience of skilled colleagues who have handled unique and challenging clinical situations with current or potential implant recipients. The book includes pediatric and adult complex cases pertaining to issues in mapping because of various medical conditions, equipment issues, improper device programming, lack of objective methods, and more.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Cases

Chapter 1. Role of Middle Ear Status in Cochlear Implant Programming

Chapter 2. Fluctuating Impedance and Performance

Chapter 3. Electrode Deactivation Based on Pitch-Confused Electrodes

Chapter 4. "It's Raining in My Head!"

Chapter 5. A Case of Facial Nerve Stimulation

Chapter 6. Techniques for Management of Persistent Facial Nerve Stimulation and Pain in a Bilateral Cochlear Implant User

Chapter 7. "The Screaming in My Head Won't Stop": A Case of Neurofibromatosis Type II

Chapter 8. The Road to Revision: A Bilateral, Sequential Reimplantation

Chapter 9. Lack of Audibility Followed by Lack of Clarity

Chapter 10. "I Only Hear Women's Voices . . . No Men"

Chapter 11. Programming Pediatrics: First Ensure Access, Then Optimize Speech Perception, and Finally, Perfect the Sound Quality

Chapter 12. Overstimulation

Chapter 13. Advanced Evaluation and Programming for Single-Sided Deafness Cochlear Implants

Chapter 14. Programming Electric-Acoustic Stimulation (EAS) Cochlear Implants

Appendix A. Common Methods for Troubleshooting, Objective Measures, and Instruction

Appendix B. Supplemental Information Regarding Programming Electrical-Acoustic Stimulation (EAS) Cochlear Implants

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Sevier, Joshua D. Complex Cochlear Implant Cases

ISBN:

9781635503845

OCLC:

1348490937