Programming Cochlear Implants, a volume in the Core Clinical Concepts in Audiology Series, offers practical guidance for clinicians who program or plan to program cochlear implants, introducing the basics of cochlear implant programming and continuing through advanced programming techniques. Manufacturer-specific information is provided, and case studies are presented to illustrate cochlear implant programming fundamentals and strategies. Specific topics covered include: basics of cochlear implant terminology and programming, clinical protocols for cochlear implant management, programming considerations for bilateral cochlear implant recipients, troubleshooting during the programming process, device-specific programming techniques, basic use of objective measures to set cochlear implant programs, use of FM and assistive listening devices with cochlear implants, and management of the difficult-to-program recipient. This book serves as a practical guide for clinicians who are providing services to cochlear implant users and also as a teaching tool for graduate-level students.
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Awesome CI reference for consumers also,
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This book is written for audiology graduate students but it is extremely helpful if you have cochlear implants or are considering getting one, particularly if you have even a modest engineering or scientific background. It answers many of the questions you may have about what your audiologist is doing when mapping your processor's software. The authors are to be commended for not writing in an typical academic, pedantic style. Instead, their descriptions are clear and concise.
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A MUST READ IN THE COCHLEAR IMPLANT WORLD,
By CI-Borg "Tom" (San Francisco Bay Area) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Programming Cochlear Implants (Core Clincal Concepts in Audiology) (Paperback)
This is a must read for all cochlear implant "candidates" and all those already implanted. Although highly technical and written for the audiologist student, to date there has been no single publication explaining many of the mysteries behind this 21st century miracle neuroprosthetic. Drs. Wolfe and Schafer demystify much of the language used in the cochlear implant world, not only helping the audiologist student and practitioner become more skilled, but also helping the patient to better understand, thus becoming a more informed patient.
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Very Good; 2nd Edition should be better,
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This is a pretty good book for a college educated CI candidate, "power user," or even the parents of a CI kiddie, as it provides a nicely detailed overview, rather than what you can extract from the marketing hype. This book has some nice troubleshooting tips, especially for parents. Also, Chapter 7 on FM is pretty good; though it does lack the channel interference table from Phonak vs the Freedom processor.
Where this book is quite helpful to the CI user community is pointing out where Best Practices can be (and are) skimped on to speed things along in busy clinics; and should serve as Warning Flags to the astute user or parent. A large part of this is due to poor 3rd party reimbursement; but also it's a bit troubling that the ramifications of taking certain shortcuts is not fully discussed. However, there are two major, interrelated shortfalls in this book the authors should address in the second edition: The first is a total lack of useful timing (signal) charts in Chapter 2, instead relying on awkward verbal descriptions of the various stimulation algorithms. A picture is worth a thousand words. The second shortfall is the almost complete glossing over of current steering, which is the process of simultaneous firing of adjacent electrodes to get a tighter, more focused charge pattern, which yields a "cleaner" stim. [This is indicated by the number of virtual channels, about 90 for MedEl and 120 for AB, and manifests itself as more, and more closely spaced, pitch percepts. This is made possible by separate current sources for each electrode button: AB can fire both positive and negative pulses simultaneously, while MedEl can fire multiple simultaneous positive OR negative pulses for basic current steering. To this day, even the new Nucleus 5 only has a single current source for all 22 buttons, as AB and MedEl have their technologies tightly wrapped up in worldwide patents.] One item notable by it's absence is a Greenwood chart graphically explaining the cochlear tonotopic structure vs angular insertion depth. One other item notable by its absence is any mention of Advanced Bionics' Clear Voice noise reduction technology, which received the CE marque in January 2010 and was rolled out across Canada & UK in February & March. Granted, CV is still awaiting FDA approval, and as of this writing (September 1) has not even had the US clinical trial data submitted; but since this book is listed for sale in Britain on the Amazon.co.uk website, at least it was worthy of mention since it's a released product; and was being beta tested at the factory back in September 2009. There was also one minor annoyance while reading this book: The use of inline footnotes for published studies, as opposed to numbering and placing them at the bottom of each page, or at the end of the chapter. I don't care about ~Dan Schwartz
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