Cochlear Implants Objective Measures

by Cullington, Helen

• ISBN13: 9781861563248
• ISBN10: 1861563248
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-30
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The age at which children are receiving cochlear implants has dropped dramatically; some children now undergo surgery when less than 12 months old. Considerable feedback is required from the patient in order to set the device optimally. This can be difficult in very young children, who may be unable to provide any behavioral information. It is therefore vital that objective measures are available in order to evaluate the device and auditory system function, set the programming parameters, and even assess performance.This book covers cochlear implant objective measures used before, during and after surgery. It provides a handbook for clinicians detailing the many techniques currently used, including telemetry, averaged electrode voltages, and electrically-evoked stapedial reflexes, auditory brainstem responses, compound action potentials, middle, late and event-related potentials. The internationally respected chapter authors from Europe and the USA provide coverage of the objective measures used in several commercially available cochlear implant devices.This book is required reading for clinicians in cochlear implant centers, researchers and those in the commercial implant field worldwide.

Author Biography

Helen Cullington is the author of Cochlear Implants: Objective Measures, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. vii
Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introduction	p. xiii
Introduction to cochlear implant objective measures	p. 1
Telemetry: features and applications	p. 23
Averaged electrode voltage measurements in patients with cochlear implants	p. 40
Electrically evoked stapedial reflexes: utility in cochlear implant patients	p. 81
The electrically evoked whole nerve action potential	p. 96
The electrically evoked auditory brainstem response	p. 130
Electrically evoked middle latency and cortical auditory evoked potentials	p. 160
Cortical auditory evoked potentials recorded from cochlear implant users: methods and applications	p. 187
Index	p. 231
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