SS04: COCHLEAR IMPLANTS AND OTHER AUDITORY IMPLANTS

Tuesday 23rd / 08:00 am / Room Islas Canarias

The session will focus on recent issues of cochlear implantation reflecting the issue of quality assurance, audiological profile, follow-up, performance data and cost benefit issues. The state of the art lectures will reflect the current development of CI becoming more important treatment for patients with deafness and severe hearing loss. Becoming a routine therapy, issues such as network for patient care and long-term follow-up have to be addressed.

Moderator:

• G. O'Donoghue (United Kingdom) and Thomas Lenarz (Germany)

Speakers:

• Norbert Dillier (Switzerland): SPEECH PROCESSING

• Eva Karltorp (Sweden): QUALITY ASSURANCE IN A GROWING COCHLEAR IMPLANT PROGRAMME.

• J. Müller-Deile (Germany): THE AUDIOLOGICAL PROFILE TO ASSESS COCHLEAR IMPLANT PATIENTS.

• Angel Ramos Macias (Spain): COMPLICATIONS AND FOLLOW-UP IN COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION.

• Thomas Lenarz (Germany): HYBRID IMPLANTS AND NEW MODES OF STIMULATION OF THE COCHLEAR.

• G. O'Donoghue (United Kingdom): QUALITY OF LIFE AND COST-BENEFIT ISSUES IN COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION.