title: Are cortical auditory evoked potentials useful in the clinical assessment of adults with cochlear implants?
abstract: Cochlear implant (CI) trends are changing as more recipients are receiving bilateral implantation. Also more pre-lingually deafened adults are choosing to be implanted. Clinical assessment after cochlear implantation is usually based on speech perception tests. Such tests, however, may not be a realistic outcome measure for some of these cases, creating a need for more objective measures of CI performance. Cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs) recorded in the sound field may be a fast and reliable procedure for the clinical audiologist to determine CI outcomes. This paper presents two case studies illustrating CAEP findings in an adult CI user who was pre-lingually deafened and a bilateral CI user.
authors.affiliation: Healthy Hearing & Balance Care, NSW, Australia. cmcneill@tpg.com.au
authors.forename: Celene
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: McNeill
authors.forename: Mridula
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Suzanne C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Purdy
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D003638:Deafness / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged