Manufacturers
What manufacturer has a bimodal partnership with ReSound (HA company)?
Cochlear
Name the two most common measurements of Telemetry.
Impedances
Neural Response Testing
If a patient comes in for a Device Discussion, name two accessories they may select.
Remote Microphone, TV Streamer, Waterproof kit, Remote Control, Phone Clip, extra battery
Put the following test materials in order from easiest to hardest:
AzBio, HINT, CNC words
HINT
AzBio
CNC words
What is the one company that does NOT have an off-ear sound processor?
Advanced Bionics
Which two manufacturers do you not HAVE to measure T-levels for (they are automatically set at 10% of upper limit levels)
Med-El
Advanced Bionics
A patient comes in reporting sound distortion and poor battery life. When connecting the processor to the software, you notice several channels are out-of-compliance. What is your suggested programming adjustment?
Increase Pulse Width
Name one at-home Aural Rehab task a patient could do to practice with their cochlear implant
environmental walk
audiobooks, podcasts, videos with text
read outloud
partner reads something, patient repeats back
aural rehab phone application
Which company's remote microphone is called a Roger?
Advanced Bionics
What objective measurement correlates most closely with the upper stimulation levels (C/M-levels)
eSRT (electrically evoked stapedial reflex thresholds)
If a patient comes in stating that rustling of their clothes and dishes clanging sound extremely loud. What is your proposed programming solution?
Decrease T-levels
What is the Place Pitch Mismatch?
the place of an electrode may be stimulating a frequency that does not correlate perfectly to the frequency of the SGCs/neural anatomy
What company does NOT have any pre-coiled electrode arrays? Their electrode arrays are all lateral wall, and are in many different lengths to individualize the fit for each patient's cochlea.
Med-El
Charge = _____ x _____
Name the two blanks.
(Hint: charge is area under the biphasic pulse)
Charge = pulse width x stimulus amplitude
A patient with single sided deafness is coming in for an evaluation. Assuming they are a candidate, what are the three possible hearing treatment options that they could pursue?
CROS
bone conduction device
cochlear implant
What is the most common etiology for which patients receive an Auditory Brainstem Implant
NF2 (neurofibromatosis type 2)