Neuroprosthetic Hearing with Auditory Brainstem Implants / Wiederherstellung des Hörens durch auditorische Hirnstammimplantate

Autor:	J Kuchta
Rok vydání:	2004
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Environmental sounds Biomedical Engineering Less invasive Audiology otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Implant Brainstem business Sensory cue Cochlea Auditory brainstem implant
Zdroj:	Biomedizinische Technik/Biomedical Engineering. 49:83-87
ISSN:	1862-278X 0013-5585
DOI:	10.1515/bmt.2004.017
Popis:	The auditory brainstem implant (ABI) does provide auditory sensations, recognition of environmental sounds and aid in spoken communication in about 300 patients worldwide. It is no more an investigative device but widely accepted for the treatment of patients who have lost hearing due to bilateral tumors of the hearing nerve who transmits the acoustic information from the cochlea to the brain. Most of the implanted patients are completely deaf when the implant is switched off. In contrast to cochlear implants, only few of the implanted patients achieve open-set speech recognition without the help of visual cues. On average, the ABI improves communicative functions like speech recognition at about 30% when compared to lip-reading only. The task for the next years is to improve the outcome of ABI further by developing new less invasive operative approaches as well as new hardware and software for the ABI device.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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