Childrens care after cochlear implant.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 12 Children’s care after cochlear implant Of: Yang Fang, Qiong to You, He Yi, Yue Lirong, Huang Maohua [Keywords:] children; cochlear implantation; post-operative care Cochlear implant, also known as cochlear prostheses (Cochlear Implant), developed rapidly in recent years, a deaf rehabilitation of new technology, is a functional electrical stimulation (Functional Electrical Stimulation, FES) technology in one of its basic principle is sound signals into electrical signals, electrical signals directly stimulate the auditory nerve in deaf cochlear cells, the auditory nerve cells to produce an action potential, the action potential will spread along the nerve fibers to the end, causing the end organ response to the deaf generate auditory. Currently cochlear implantation of children has been basically mature, but for children, because of its young age, poor self-control, communication barriers, the electrode loss and postoperative infection, rejection and other complications of serious impact on surgical success or failure. Postoperative care is still the current widespread use of surgical nursing, nursing care can not be fully in place, in particular, the electrode loss and communication disorders. from December 2008 to December 2009, our department has successfully carried out in 8 children, children with cochlear cochlear implantation, postoperative care and child care specialist with experience in developing comprehensive and targeted care program, and achieved satisfactory results, now nursing summarized as follows. 1 Clinical data The group of 8 patients, 5 males and 3 females; age of 1.1 to 8 years of age; of which 3 cases of prelingual deafness, hearing loss in 2 cases after the words; congenital deafness in 2 cases, 1 case of drug-induced deafness. Preoperative patients meet the basic surgical indications: Check double within the normal development of the external ear, mastoid gasification good residual peripheral nerve