The Vienna cochlear implant program.

K Burian; I J Hochmair-Desoyer; B Eisenwort

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The Vienna cochlear implant program.

K Burian·I J Hochmair-Desoyer·B Eisenwort

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The cochlear implant program in Vienna has now gathered 160 patient years of experience with 25 patients who have received an extracochlear implant prosthesis and 31 patients who have received an intracochlear implant prosthesis. The sound processor avoids the transformation of speech into pulses and provides a processed analog broad-band stimulation signal. Approximately one half of the patients are prelingually deaf. The selection criteria include electrical promontory stimulation and acoustic and electrical brain-stem audiometry. The rehabilitation program consisting of counseling, communication training, and auditory training is considered an important part of the program. The results are assessed using the Vienna Auditory Test battery. Sixty per cent of the postlingually deafened patients achieve some open-set speech understanding without lip-reading. Sixty-five per cent of the users show a substantial improvement in aided speech understanding versus lip-reading alone.

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K Burian, I J Hochmair-Desoyer, B Eisenwort. 1986. The Vienna cochlear implant program.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3754952/

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