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Ear Rehabilitation of Hearing Disorders with Hearing Aids
Built from Behrbohm — Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases with Head and Neck Surgery
What’s inside
6 sections · 35 slides
Overview
- What this topic covers
Foundations
What rehabilitation aims for and how a patient is assessed
- Why we rehabilitate hearing at all
- Assessing the patient before choosing a device
- Three ideas that guide every choice
Hearing aids and surgery
Rebuilding or amplifying the sound-conducting path
- Reconstructive middle ear surgery
- What a hearing aid actually does
- Where hearing aids sit
- Behind-the-ear and in-the-ear hearing aids
- Fitting a hearing aid is a process, not a purchase
Implantable hearing aids
When an external aid is not enough — bone and middle-ear implants
- Two families of implantable aid
- Bone conduction implants: two ways to reach the bone
- Bone-anchored hearing apparatus (BAHA)
- Implanted Bonebridge bone-conduction device
- Active middle ear implants (AMEI)
- How an active middle ear implant works
Cochlear and brainstem implants
Bypassing the hearing organ when it can no longer work
- The cochlear implant: who it is for
- The two halves of a cochlear implant
- How a cochlear implant creates hearing
- How a cochlear implant works
- What cochlear implants achieve
- What makes a cochlear implant succeed
- The hybrid cochlear implant
- Hybrid cochlear implant system
- When the nerve is gone: the brainstem implant
- What an auditory brainstem implant delivers
Supportive aids and training
Helping the person, not just the ear
- Aids that support hearing devices
- Training: relearning how to listen
- Key takeaways
- Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases: With Head and Neck Surgery