Postoperative psychiatric consumption reduces cochlear reimplantation in children: Study
Turkey: A recent study in the Journal of Audiology & Otology has stressed the importance of providing a safe school and home environment and educating the family for reducing cochlear reimplantation due to trauma. The researchers suggest continuing postoperative psychiatric consultation, especially for active children.
The results and causes of revision and reimplantation in cochlear implant (CI) surgery may guide surgeons in establishing surgical protocols for revision surgery with safe audiological outcomes.
Considering this, Fulya Ozer, Baskent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, and colleagues aimed to review their experience in terms of etiology, surgical strategy, and hearing outcomes in pediatric patients who underwent CI removal and reimplantation.
All patients received implants of the same brand. The researchers noted pre and postoperative categories of Auditory Performance score and aided free-field pure tone audiometry thresholds. In vivo integrity tests were performed for each patient and the results of ex vivo tests of each implant were obtained from the manufacturer.
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