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Cochlear implants Flashcards

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Team of developers

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engineers, otologists, audiologists, psychoacousticians, and neurophsysicits

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how does it work?

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Cochlear implants bypass damaged peripheral hearing system and directly stimulate the CNVIII

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indicaters a mapping appointment is needed

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changes in auditory discrim
increased repetition needed
adition/omission of syllables 
prolongation of vowels
change in vocal quality
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telemetry

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confirms proper communication of processor and electrodes

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neural response assessment

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electrophysiologic response from the nerve in response to electrode stim
especially useful in children

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t levels

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measure of threshold for sound on each electrode (cochlear)

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C or M levels

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comfort levels using a scale

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speech strategies

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different methods of stimulation can produce different perceptions from the patient
ex simultaneous sequential or both

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condition

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AB only - sends stim to all cannels at the same time. it can push away any buildup around array
activation?

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impedance

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opposition to electrical current flow across an electrode
voltage/current measured in kOhms

influenced by electrode and lead, but also the medium
fibrous tissue, electrolytes, macrophages, proteins

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voltage

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current x impedance

current stays constant, increases in impedance will cause an increase in voltage.

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high impedance

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open
may be due to air bubbles, send stim then measure again?
hopfully its temporary

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short circuit

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low impedance, usually a phsyical breakdown of two channels permanently
usually only occurs at implantation
compare over time, note dips in impedance

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NRI (ab)

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corresponds well to M levels

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NRT (cochlear)

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not always correlated to C levels, can sometimes be more in the middle

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Uses of NRT/NRI

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relatively stable over time

used with impedances to tell if change in performance is due to device function or neural responsiveness

get within first few months of stimulation to use as baseline

assess for internal device failure, if you had them before and nwo you dont it could be a soft failure
can also use this so determine what pitch abilities.

highly influences by neural survival, synchronous neural activity

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threshold levels - (cochlear)

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at or jsut above threshold, ascending bracketing loudness growth chart

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med el threshold levels

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highest stim where no sound is perceived

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sound detection thresholds

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15-20 for cochlear

30-40 others

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c levels

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set below maximum confort level (summation)

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m levels - med el

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highest stim level at which sound is loud but comfortable

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m level - AB

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most comfortable level

soundwave 2.0 uses speech bursts for m levels

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methods of loudness balancing

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balancing and sweeping
may say “sounds good but something is weird”
doesnt always do this at activation,
usually at about 80% of MCL? at or near upper stim level

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sweeping

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start at one end and start just below of every channel as itmoves through the array going low to high, “pitch should get higher, loudness should not.”

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pitch ranking

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if the electrode array is rolled over on itself, pitch does not increase from low to high on sequential electrodes

reorder channels if necessary to match the perception

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compliance

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the amount of voltage allowed for each electrode

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“out of compliance”

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max voltage available from the implant is not suffiecient to generate the desired current level

insuffient loudness growth, variable loudness, sound may be distorted, poor battery life, decrease performance in general

dont want your c level to be just below compliance
if you cant you may need to increase pulse width

some days it sounds good and some days not.

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automatic pulse width (APW) - ab

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calculates and adjusts pulse width and rate pased on compliance and M-level requirements
it can do this when the patient is not in front of you so if you have fluctuating impedance you get more compliance headroom so you may want to turn on

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when to use manual pulse width?

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poor sound quality
cannot obtain adequate loudness due to facial nerve stim
fluttering or choppy

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maxima

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takes incoming signal to spectogram and pulls our where the most energy is, usually 8-10, transmitted via T levels of the map

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loudness growth - amp

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as long as there is sufficient voltage available, current amp can be increased and the precept of loudness growth will result

if insufficient voltage is not available to meet the current requirement, the channel will be out of compliance. (no further loudness growth)

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loudness growth

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amplitude, pulse width, rate

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loudness growth - PW

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short (narrow) pulse widths produce higher thresholds and steeper loudness growth curves.

longer pulse durations (wider) produce lower thresholds and larger dynamic ranges, due to slower loudness growth near threshold.

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loudness growth - rate

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pitch changes due to rate saturate at 500 PPS

higher stim rates require narrow PW which consumes sig power.

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eCAP

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electrically evoked compound action potential
potential that reflects fynchronious firing of large # of electrically stimulated nVIII fibers
started by putting needle electrode, cochlear discovvered with Nucleus to use intracochlear to stimualte instead

N1 ~.2-.5 ms followed by P1 ~ 1 ms
amp 20-1500 uV

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utility of eCAP

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integirty of system, how are the devices talking and how is the nerve responding.
at activation, once you get all channels you dont really have to do it that much, more useful in children

series of sounds, get louder and try to tolerate it
these are the highest levels so if you dont get facial nerve stim that you probably wont, also can start to get pitch information

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NRT/NRI high influenced by

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neural survival
synchronous neural activity
nerve survival with respect to the measuring electrode.

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eSRT

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electrically evoked stapedial reflex threshold
SRT occurs at or near the M/C levels levels used by the processor
bilateral contraction so stim the implant and measure non implanted ear

need to consider middle ear history especially for bilateral

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how to administer eSRT

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probe in contra ear,
continue to record acoustic admittance with 226 probe tone,
present programming stimulus for upper limit of DR
change in admittance occurs time=locked with stimulus when presentation level is of ideal intensity of C/M level

measure as many as you can, then interpolate
reduce c/m for live mode then increase to eSRT level

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speech encoding strategy

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method which the implant translates the incoming acoustic signal into patterns of electrical pulses
provide spectral and envelope info

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stimulation mode

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location of the reference electrode to the active electrode
-monopolar vs bipolar
med el monopolar only

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threshold levels

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ensure soft sounds are audible
sound field responses are in line with specs
perception of soft softs

if soft sounds are too loud bring down T

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T-Tail

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limited change in loudness perception across a wide range of stimulation ltevels in the lower part of the EDR (electrical dynamic range)

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T levels for tinnitus

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Set t levels over level of tinnitus, then reduce globally, loudness balancing at 50% over t levels

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interpolation

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estimation of stimulation levels on the basis of measure values from neighboring channels.

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programming method

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behavioral, objective preset (using NRT or NRT to set up map)
objective w/ behavioral offset
help set configuration measure on T then interpolate

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influences on levels

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speech processing strategy
bipolar/monopolar
stim rate

C and M levels (current)
proximity of electrode array to modiolus

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non auditory stimulation?

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current can reach neighboring nerves, run through measurements and summate to make sure, test loudness clapping and jingling keys
reduce levels or deactivate electrode if causing coughing or favial tiwtch. if you are way out of your DR then just turn off, otherwise drop 5 CU

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the need for power

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sufficiant voltage available to the implant to ensure that all electrodes are in compliance 
sufficient power (voltage and current) for the demands of he chosen MAP
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power optimization

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can the battery provide sifficient voltage to deliver the requested amount of current
calculates amount of power needed in worst case condition (ambient noise >65) for all electrodes to be within compliance

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problems with battery life

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increase pw

decrease rate/maxima if high stim levels or compliance conditions are not an issue

52
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live voice modifications —–

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tilting
decrease or increase levels on all channels
gain
frequency adjustments

53
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tilting

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increase high 2 and decrease low 2 rather than decreasing low 4 steps

54
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hearing low level humming?

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take down the c levels for the lows, but they are still hearing if then it could be their own voice so bring down T levels.

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sensitivity

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distance of hearing, perception in noise

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processing strategy

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set of rules and processes for converting the acoustic input signal into electrical stimulation waveforms
paired or sequential

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paired or sequential

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paired is faster so you may do sequential for older patients

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intensity domain

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influenced by how sound is captured and processed
directional mics
mic placement
AGC
input dynamic range
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spectral domain

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nromal hearing 20-20kHz, implants 250-8000 Hz
music is different, notes that are close in frequency can processed through the same ci filter bank so perception is the same, larger difference to differentiate

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the 5 processing strategies

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continuous interleaved sampling (CIS)
HiResolution (HiRes) - AB
Advances combination encoder (ACE) - cochlear 
Spectral peak (SPEAK)
Fine structure processing (FSP) -mel el
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CIS

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filters sounds using band pass filters
envelope compressed non linearly
1000 pps
pulses sent sequentially

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HiRes

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high stim rate and up to 16 channels
up to 5000 pps
uses half-wave rectifier for envelope detection
current steering, using multiple electrodes in different patterns for different frequencies, more sophisticated AGC algorithm

new versions - increase virtual channels
improve spectral res and speech recognition in noise, soud quality and music appreciation
designed to reduce battery consumption

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n of m

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acoustic energy in each m channel is determined and stimulation is administered to only the n channels with the highest amplitude inputs. reduces number of active electrodes = faster stim rates, increase batt life

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SPEAK ACE

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channel selection scheme
envelope signals for different channels re scanned prior to each from of stiulation, the highet amplitudes are identified and stimulus is delievered to those electrodes. fixed parameter ACE 1000 pps and SPEAK 250 pps

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FSP

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new form of CIS offered by med el
intermetiate pitches generate via bell shaped overlapping filters diesigned to improve perception of high frequency phonemes based on place cues

66
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selecting speech processor strategy

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high rate = ace FSP HiRes
sig research indicates that performance is improved with high rate strategies
preference is strongly correlated with performance

67
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voltage compliance

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each system has a finite voltage capacity (size and type of battery) which determines the maximum amount of current it can deliver.

The amount of power available to operate the implant and the current that will be delivered to an individual electrode is determined by the efficiency of the signal delivery from the external coil to the internal device, the voltage capacity of the battery, and the electrode impedance.

The maximum amount of electrical current available to stimulate an electrode is determined by Ohm’s law

The max amount of current that can be delivered to an electrode by given power source. The voltage is determined by capacity of the battery so its fixed. the current available at each electrode is variable across recipients and electrodes by the impedance of each electrode

high impedance will result in lower amount of current available to stimulate.
lower electrode impedance results in a higher amount of current available o stimulate the electrode

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