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Cochlear Implant Surgery

March 2005 - Going to have CI surgery soon? Wondering what you should do before surgery? How about afterwards? Here's a great list of tips that Denise Portis assembled following her search for this information!

January 2006 - Want to show your hearing friends how the sound of a cochlear implant (CI) changes as the number of channels increases? This CI simulator from the PBS website does exactly that. Here it is! 

September 2006 - Revolutionary new method of cochlear implants

March 2007 - Robotic Drill Used for Cochlear Implant Surgery

June 2007 - Live CI Surgery on the Web!

November 2007 - New, less-invasive approach eases cochlear implant surgery

March 2010 - New Tool Promises More Precise CI Surgery

March 2011 - AM-111 protects against hearing loss from cochlear implant electrode insertion trauma

April 2011 - Video of Cochlear Implant Surgery Online

More on this and related topics

 

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Robotic Drill Used for Cochlear Implant Surgery

March 2007

The world's first truly smart robotic micro-drill has been used in a surgical operation in Birmingham, the United Kingdom. The surgical drilling robot, developed by Peter Brett from the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Aston University, does not have to be programmed or made to work from a computer operated by a human. It is smart, just knows where to go and what to do, science news website Alpha Galileo reported on Thursday.  The drill has been tested on patients needing cochlear implants by David Proops, Ear, Nose and Throat Consultant Surgeon at University Hospital Birmingham NHS (National Health Service) Foundation Trust.  The drill, applied to the cochlea, the inner ear hearing organ, is aligned to the correct place and then drills a hole less than a millimeter in diameter to enable the cochlear implant to be inserted. This has never happened in medicine before.  Full Story

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Live CI Surgery on the Web!

June 2007

If you're a bit squeamish about surgery, you may want to pass up this opportunity. But if you're curious about what's involved in CI surgery, or you'd just like to see what the operation is like, here's your chance! The folks at Tampa General Hospital will be streaming a live CI operation on July 26 at 4PM ET. You can read the complete story and sign up for a reminder here.

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New, less-invasive approach eases cochlear implant surgery 

November 2007

Robert Labadie, M.D., Ph.D., and his colleagues at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have come up with an image-guided, minimally invasive approach to cochlear implant surgery they believe will make it faster, less invasive and more precise.  This spring they received a $3 million, four-year grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to test their hypothesis.  "We envision such a minimally invasive technique to become the LASIK procedure of the ear," said Labadie, associate professor of Otolaryngology and Biomedical Engineering.  In order to accurately implant an electrode in the cochlea without damaging the critical facial nerve, surgeons currently have to excavate a large section of bone from the lateral skull base, a process that takes approximately two hours to complete in the operating room with patients under general anesthesia.  Labadie said that with his group's software and frame design, surgeons will be able to plan a specific trajectory by putting anchors into the skull, and then having a customized frame built to guide a drill along a safe path from the lateral skull base to the cochlea.  This process may reduce operating time from hours to minutes, and could eliminate the need for general anesthesia, he said.  Full Story

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Video of Cochlear Implant Surgery Online

April 2011

Have you ever wondered what's involved in being implanted with a cochlear implant? If so, here's your chance to find out. There's an excellent video online that covers the surgery in living color and clear detail. Parts of it are pretty graphic, so it's not recommended for those are a bit squeamish.  Thanks to bhNEWS for the lead on this video!