Minimally Invasive Cochlear Implant Center – Advantages of Hainan Branch Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery

  On February 14, 2012, the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery of the Hainan Branch of the PLA General Hospital, under the leadership of Director Park Dai, was the first to perform cochlear implant surgery, and the first routine surgery under general anesthesia since the opening of the branch. Under the leadership of Director Dai Park, the Hainan Branch established the Cochlear Implant Minimally Invasive Center, which has continued to grow and develop.  At the beginning of 2014, Zhao Hui, deputy director of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery of the PLA General Hospital, rotated to the Hainan Branch as the department director to continue to maintain and carry forward the characteristics and advantages in the field of cochlear implantation, and the minimally invasive cochlear implant center of the Branch has completed 295 cochlear implantations from Beijing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan, Hainan, Heilongjiang, Shanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Hunan The cochlear implant center has completed 295 cochlear implants from Beijing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan, Hainan, Heilongjiang, Shanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong and Shaanxi, all of which have achieved good recovery results.  Compared with other cochlear implantation centers, the minimally invasive surgery center of Hainan Branch has the following advantages: 1. Minimally invasive surgery: The surgery develops in the direction of more minimally invasive, with small incisions of 62.5px to 75px, intradermal sutures, and the insertion of AOS electrodes and round windows, which cause little trauma to the cochlear tissue and preserve residual hearing. The number of successful cases of preserving residual hearing is far ahead in the country.  2. High surgical safety: short surgery time, high safety, few complications, no need for secondary surgery in more than 800 cases.  3. No post-operative infection: Hainan Branch is located in Sanya Haitang Bay, with a pleasant climate and ward conditions in line with international first-class hospitals, with spacious and clean hospital conditions and first-class nursing care, which greatly reduces the chance of post-operative infection.  4.Cochlear implant priority: Cochlear implant patients are given green channel, priority hospitalization, examination and surgery. Pre-operative hearing examination facilities are available, and the technical ability of hearing detection is consistent with that of Beijing headquarters, with complete examination items and high accuracy rate.  5. Early post-operative opening: 7 days after surgery, the patient can open the machine, reducing the trouble of round trip and the hearing reconstruction effect is intuitive. It also has the means and ability of preoperative and postoperative speech evaluation, which lays the foundation for long-term efficacy observation.  6. Complete genetic diagnosis: The genetic diagnosis center of the Institute of Otolaryngology of the General Hospital has reached international level and is the leading one in China. The branch hospital has three specialists and key personnel for deafness genetic diagnosis, which can rely on the technical advantages of the laboratory of the General Hospital to perform deafness genetic testing for patients in the branch hospital and provide prenatal diagnosis and consultation at the same time.