Systems of the cochlear implantation in newborns: difficulties and features

Egorov Alexey I., Glukhovskiy Evgeniy M.

Hearing loss in each reason cause is always an irreparable loss. It is also an interdiction for adequate socialization and the full development of the talents of a child. Hearing is not only a sensory component of the human body but a trigger mechanism for the development of communication abilities, so, socialization of a person. Nowadays the cochlear implantation method is the only way to rehabilitate people with hearing loss, and children with deep sensorineural hearing loss. So, it becomes an integrating mechanism into socially and active life. Setting up a cochlear implant is an important and integral part of the rehabilitation for people with hearing impairments. But in infants, it is not possible to adjust the implants using subjective methods. So, the purpose of the presented research was to study objective options for adjusting a cochlear implant in children under 2 years of age. The presented principles may also be applied to patients without contact in or in the case of comorbidities present in the anamnesis. The authors have assessed the stapedial reflex due to achieve the maximum comfort level for the patient have been stimulated with a cochlear implant. The manuscript also discusses the procedure for measuring auditory reflexes, as well as conducting telemetry of the neural response and the principles of direct measurement of neural responses generated by auditory nerve fibers.

Keywords:cochlear implant, stapedial reflex, neural response telemetry, ECAP.