RE: [bhNEWS] HLAA Convention 2011 Special: Workshops - Auditory Rehabilitation

[Guest guest]

For a picture of one of the deaf cats with a cohlear implant, as mentioned

in Cheryl's report:

http://www.jhu.edu/ryugolab/research/endbulbstudy.html

Here Kitty, Kitty.

Bob

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[Guest guest]

With regard to Dr.Niparko's comments on MRIs of cochlear implant patients,

sans magnet removal, please see: http://tinyurl.com/3zrxoz7

Note that FDA regulations require magnet removal for MRI diagnostics of any

magnetic field strength with Cochlear and Advanced Bionics implants, and

only up to .2 Tesla with MED-EL implants with the magnet in situ.

Bob

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NVRC News - June 27, 2011

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New Options in Auditory Rehabilitation

By Cheryl Heppner 6/27/11

Dr. Niparko wears many hats at s Hopkins Medical - or should that

we say he wears many surgical masks or coats? He is the Interim Director of

the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and T. Nager

Professor, as well as Director of the Division of Otology, Audiology,

Neurotology, and Skull Base Surgery, and Director of the Listening Center.

Long-time attendees of NVRC's educational programs will remember his

highly-acclaimed workshops at NVRC in past years.

SNIP......

Q: What cochlear implants make it possible to have MRIs?

A: We now have a way to perform MRIs on patients who have cochlear implants

without having to remove the magnet. A binding procedure is used. The

important thing to know Is that we can do the scan but we can't keep you

comfortable. It will hurt for about 10 minutes afterward because the

magnets are moving around. We couldn't find an MRI with a Tesla

(measurement of strength) of less than 1.0, so the research has used one

with a Tesla of 1.5.