Sound Processor Fitting in Patients with Cochlear Implant at Department of Phoniatrics First Faculty of Medicine Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague

Czech version

Authors: J. Vokřál ¹; L. Černý ¹; J. Skřivan ²; J. Bouček ²; Z. Čada ²; J. Kluh ²
Authors‘ workplace: Foniatrická klinika 1. LF UK a VFN, Praha, přednostka doc. MUDr. O. Dlouhá, CSc. ¹; Klinika otorinolaryngologie a chirurgie hlavy a krku 1. LF UK a FN Motol, Praha, přednosta prof. MUDr. J. Betka, DrSc. ²
Published in: Otorinolaryngol Foniatr, 61, 2012, No. 4, pp. 216-222.
Category: Original Article

Overview

The article summarizes experience from a fitting of sound processors, complications and the first experience of adult patients implanted with a cochlear implant (CI). At the Department of Phoniatrics, the fitting of patients with CI of the Australian company Cochlear started 1^st January 2005 and of the Austrian company MED-EL two years later. There were performed fittings of 100 patients from the very beginning up to a half of year 2012.

Key words:
cochlear implant, fitting, sound processor.

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