On March 2nd, on the occasion of the 23rd national “Ear Love Day”, the “Ear Love Day” series of activities of Yunnan First People’s Hospital held a “Parents Meeting” for cochlear implants.
The theme of this National Ear Day is “Care for Hearing Health, Listen to a Wonderful Future”. Through on-site lectures on hearing loss and ear health care, people will increase their awareness of ear care and ear care, improve the awareness rate of ear care knowledge for prevention and rehabilitation, understand the importance of scientific hearing protection, and establish early detection, early intervention, and early rehabilitation. concept.
At the event, Cao Xianbao, chief physician of the Department of Otolaryngology, Yunnan First People’s Hospital, talked about the principle of cochlear implants and before and after implantation Provide expert consultation services on topics such as matters needing attention and interpretation of national policies related to cochlear implants. He introduced that cochlear implant technology is the most important method for the treatment of severe deafness to total deafness. After decades of development, cochlear implant technology has become the only effective treatment method for restoring hearing in patients with total deafness. This technique is mainly suitable for children with severe or profound sensorineural hearing loss in both ears. The optimal implantation age is 1 to 5 years old, and the earlier implantation in this age group, the better. Existing cochlear implant products have been able to allow patients to return to the sound world, so that patients can get basically normal hearing. After hearing and speech rehabilitation training, most of them can communicate with hearing and speech without obstacles.