Pre-graduate Researcher
Leise Elisabeth Hviid Korsager
Department of Otolaryngology, Odense University Hospital
Project management | ||
Project status | Closed | |
Data collection dates | ||
Start | 01.08.2015 | |
End | 01.07.2016 | |
Cochlear implant is an advanced type of hearing advice. It consists of an outer microphone, which picks up sound and sends it through an electrode into the cochlear.
With a cochlear implant people, that are profoundly deaf or have severe hearing losses, can get their hearing back.
Vertigo is one of the most common side effects to cochlear implant surgery. In this study we will investigate if one type of CI surgery (insertion of the electrode via paracentese of the round window) leads to less vertigo than another type of CI surgery (cochleostomy).
Vertigo is one of the most common side effects to CI surgery. Yet, it is unclear if one type of surgery (insertion of the electrode via paracentese of the round window) leads to less vertigo than another type of surgery (insertion of the electrode via cochleostomy).
At the same time it is unclear if the degree of vestibular damage after CI surgery can be correlated to the vertigo perceived of the patient.
We will be the first team to investigate the vestibular function in the two different types of surgery and the relation to the vertigo perceived of the patients. It will be examined with video head impulse test (vHIT) in a clinical, randomised trial with patients who will undergo CI surgery at the ENH-department at University Hospital of Southern Denmark (OUH).
Inclusions criteria:
The patients will be tested with video head impulse test (vHIT) to investigate their vestibular function. They will also be asked to fill out the Dizziness Handicap Inventory questionnaire.
Department of Otolaryngology, Odense University Hospital