Overview

Hearing remains the only human sense that can be restored if damaged. Thus, cochlear implants and other implantable hearing mechanisms have become more prevalent solutions to modern-day hearing trauma, making it imperative for clinicians to gain expertise on the subject. This text will provide hearing professionals -- who are oftentimes ignorant of the fundamental indications for and benefits of hearing devices -- with the knowledge necessary to wholly understand these implantable mechanisms so that they can incorporate them into their practices.

Audience

Primary Subject: Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery / Otology
Secondary Subject: Audiology / Cochlear Implants
Audience Level: Professional

1 History of Implantable Hearing Devices
Marc D. Eisen
2 Designing and Building a Cochlear Implant Program
Linda S. Burg, David Friedland and Christina Runge
3 Electrode Designs for Cochlear Implantation
Charles G. Wright and Peter S. Roland
4 Signal Processing Strategies for Cochlear Implants
Blake S. Wilson and Michael F. Dorman
5 Cochlear Implant Candidate Selection
René H. Gifford
6 Imaging of Cochlear Implants
Suyash Mohan, Ellen G. Hoeffner, and Laurie A. Loevner
7 Surgical Techniques for Cochlear Implants in Adults
Jason Brandt, D.C. Bigelow, and Michael J. Ruckenstein
8 Cochlear Implants – Surgical Techniques, special considerations –Pediatric and malformed cochleae
Luv Javia
9 The Suprameatal approach: An Alternative Surgical Technique for Cohlear Implantation
Lela Migorov and Jona Kronenberg
10 Hearing Preservation: Cochlear Implantation and Electro-acoustic Stimulation
Sandra Prentiss and Hinrich Staecker
11 Bilateral cochlear implantation
Robert R. Peters
12 Adult Cochlear Implant Programming: A Basic Introduction
Michelle Montes and Jennifer Rotz
13 Pediatric Cochlear Implant Programming: A Basic Introduction
Michael F. Jackson
14 Measuring Auditory Outcomes of Cochlear Implant Use in Children with Behavioural and Electrophysiologic Tests
Karen A. Gordon and Blake C. Papsin
15 Treatment Outcomes of Adult Cochlear Implantation
Paul T. Mick, Lendra M. Friesen, David B. Shipp, and Joseph M. Chen
16 Cochlear Implant-Mediated Perception of Environmental Sounds and Music
Yell Inverso
17 Cochlear Implantation: Reliability and Reimplantation
Robert D. Cullen and Craig A. Buchman
18 Auditory Brainstem Implants
Harrison W. Lin, Barbara S. Herrmann, and Daniel J. Lee
19 Bone-Conduction Hearing Devices
Manohar Bance, Robert B. A. Adamson and Ross William Deas
20 BAHA Surgery: Evolution, Techniques, and Complications
David A. Gudis and Michael J. Ruckenstein
21 Middle Ear Implantable Hearing Devices: Present and Future
Jeffery J. Kuhn

Appendix
Index

About The Editor

Michael Ruckenstein, MD, MSc, FACS, FRCSC

Michael J. Ruckenstein MD, MSc, FACS, FRCSC is Professor, Vice Chairman, and Residency Program Director at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

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