SURGICAL APPROACHES TO IMPROVING EAR HEALTH AND HEARING

Grant number: 1078673 | Funding period: 2015 - 2019

Completed

Abstract

My vision is to advance ear and hearing health all Australians across three areas. The first is to ensure that patients receiving hearing-restoration operations with cochlear prostheses today have ears that will be ready to receive tomorrows molecular therapies. The second is a clinical trial to establish how best to treat Indigenous children burdened with otitis media and hearing loss. The third seeks to improve the quality of training in ear surgery through simulation.

Related publications (6)

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Monitoring Cochlear Health With Intracochlear Electrocochleography During Cochlear Implantation: Findings From an International Clinical Investigation.

S O'Leary, E Mylanus, F Venail, T Lenarz, C Birman, F Di Lella, JT Roland, B Gantz, A Beynon, M Sicard, A Buechner, WK Lai, C Boccio, B Choudhury, VD Tejani, K Plant, R English, R Arts, C Bester

2023-03-01

OBJECTIVES: Electrocochleography (ECochG) is emerging as a tool for monitoring cochlear function during cochlear implant (CI) surg..

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Electrocochleography triggered intervention successfully preserves residual hearing during cochlear implantation: Results of a randomised clinical trial

Christofer Bester, Aaron Collins, Tayla Razmovski, Stefan Weder, Robert J Briggs, Benjamin Wei, Atiqah Farah Zakaria, Jean-Marc Gerard, Alistair Mitchell-Innes, Michael Tykocinski, Richard Kennedy, Claire Iseli, Markus Dahm, Simon Ellul, Stephen O'Leary

2022-11-29

BACKGROUND: Preservation of natural hearing during cochlear implantation is associated with improved speech outcomes, however more..

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Cochlear microphonic latency predicts outer hair cell function in animal models and clinical populations

Christofer Bester, Stefan Weder, Aaron Collins, Adrian Dragovic, Kate Brody, Amy Hampson, Stephen O'Leary

2020-12-01

As recently reported, electrocochleography recorded in cochlear implant recipients showed reduced amplitude and shorter latency in..

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Nanomechanical mapping reveals localized stiffening of the basilar membrane after cochlear implantation

Jessica K Choong, Amy J Hampson, Kate M Brody, Jonathon Lo, Christofer W Bester, Anthony W Gummer, Nicholas P Reynolds, Stephen J O'Leary

2020-01-01

Cochlear implantation leads to many structural changes within the cochlea which can impair residual hearing. In patients with pres..

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Intraoperative force and electrocochleography measurements in an animal model of cochlear implantation

J Lo, C Bester, A Collins, C Newbold, A Hampson, S Chambers, H Eastwood, S O'Leary

2018-02-01

To preserve residual hearing, techniques for monitoring and reducing the effects of trauma during cochlear implant surgery are bei..

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Characterizing Electrocochleography in Cochlear Implant Recipients with Residual Low-Frequency Hearing

Christopher W Bester, Luke Campbell, Adrian Dragovic, Aaron Collins, Stephen J O'Leary

2017-03-23

Objective: Lay the groundwork for using electrocochleography (ECochG) as a measure of cochlear health, by characterizing typical p..

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