Cochlear Implantation

It’s not an overstatement to say that surgeons from The House Clinic revolutionized otology / neurotology in the second half of the twentieth century. In this episode of the BackTable ENT podcast, Dr. John House, son of the clinic’s founder, Howard, discusses the clinic’s fabled history with guest host Dr. Walter Kutz (UT Southwestern).

Any otolaryngologist or cochlear implant (CI) patient can tell you that the journey to better hearing begins in earnest after CI activation. When the patient in question is a child, what does that journey look like? In this episode of the BackTable ENT podcast, Dr. Sarah Cordingley, audiologist with Peak ENT (Provo, Utah), joins host Dr. Gopi Shah to discuss aural rehabilitation for pediatric CI patients.

In this episode, Dr. Anita Jeyakumar, pediatric ENT at Mercy Health (Youngstown, Ohio) discusses language for Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HoH) children with podcast host Dr. Gopi Shah.

En este episodio de BackTable ENT, Dr. Carlos Torre entrevista al reumatólogo Dr. Juan Chiossone sobre su trayectoria profesional y su manejo de pacientes con problemas neurotológicos.

In this episode of BackTable ENT, Dr. Shah interviews pediatric otolaryngologist Dr. Adriana Vega about the process and importance of building a pediatric cochlear implant program in Costa Rica.

In this crossover episode of BackTable, Dr. Eric Gantwerker interviews Dr. Chris Kaufmann and Dr. Marlan Hansen from the University of Iowa about their startup company, iotaMotion, which has developed the first FDA-approved robotic cochlear implant insertion system.

Dr. Joe Walter Kutz talks with Dr. Jed Grisel about practice patterns treating patients with hearing loss, as well as the correlation between hearing loss and cognitive decline, and how best to screen these patients.

We talk with Dr. Anita Jeyakumar about her approach to Single Sided Deafness in Children, including workup, treatment and long-term care.

We talk with Dr. Prashant Malhotra from Nationwide Children’s Hospital about Pediatric Cochlear Implants, including workup and patient selection.

We speak with Dr. Jacob Hunter about Adult Cochlear Implantation, including patient workup and counseling, surgical tips and tricks, and post procedure followup.