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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791220003321

Titolo

Cochlear implants and other implantable hearing devices / / edited by Michael J. Ruckenstein ; Robert B. A. Adamson [and forty others], contributors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Diego, California ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Plural Publishing, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-59756-586-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (449 p.)

Disciplina

617.8/8220592

Soggetti

Cochlear implants

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Contributors; Chapter 1. History of Implantable Hearing Devices; Chapter 2. Designing and Building a Cochlear Implant Program; Chapter 3. Electrode Design for Cochlear Implantation; Chapter 4. Signal Processing Strategies for Cochlear Implants; Chapter 5. Cochlear Implant Candidate Selection; Chapter 6. Imaging of Cochlear Implantation; Chapter 7. Surgical Technique for Cochlear Implants in Adults; Chapter 8. Cochlear Implants: Surgical Techniques, Special Considerations - Pediatric and Malformed Cochleae

Chapter 9. The Suprameatal Approach: An Alternative Surgical Technique for Cochlear ImplantationChapter 10. Hearing Preservation: Cochlear Implantation and Electroacoustic Stimulation; Chapter 11. Bilateral Cochlear Implantation; Chapter 12. Adult Cochlear Implant Programming: A Basic Introduction; Chapter 13. Pediatric Cochlear Implant Programming: A Basic Introduction; Chapter 14. Measuring Auditory Outcomes of Cochlear Implant Use in Children with Behavioral and Electrophysiologic Tests; Chapter 15. Treatment Outcomes of Adult Cochlear Implantation

Chapter 16. Cochlear Implant-Mediated Perception of Environmental Sounds and MusicChapter 17. Cochlear Implantation: Reliability and Reimplantation; Chapter 18. Auditory Brainstem Implants; Chapter 19.



Bone-Conduction Hearing Devices; Chapter 20. Baha® Surgery: Evolution, Techniques, and Complications; Chapter 21. Middle Ear Implantable Hearing Devices: Present and Future; Appendix: Immunization for Cochlear Implant Recipients; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.