Archive for April 9th, 2007
Deadline approaches for terminally ill child
Monday, April 9, 2007
By MELISSA MCGUIRE & SHELTON GREEN
KVUE News
Time is quickly running out for a terminally ill child. Doctors plan to take a 17-month-old boy off of life support Tuesday.
The child has an incurable neurological disorder, Leigh’s Disease, causing his brain tissue to die. The boy’s mother is still trying to find another hospital to care for her son.
“I’m never going to be ready to do this. It’s just really hard,” said Emilio Gonzales’ mother, Catarina. She says she cannot believe these may be her son’s final hours. “I’m just waiting right now to see. I’m scared.”
Gonzales says Emilio is doing better, even breathing on his own a little. But doctors have ruled his condition hopeless. He was born deaf and blind, and during his first year of life, his condition worsened.
Seton Hospital’s ethics committee ruled that Emilio should be removed from life support. That deadline is just hours away.
“What were hoping is that someone will come forward – a hospital will come forward and a doctor will be willing to take Emilio, perform that procedure so that he can go to a lower level of care,” said Jerri Ward, Gonzales’ attorney. Continue
UMC Performs State’s First Dual Cochlear Implant
April 9, 2007
A first for Arizona.
University Medical Center has performed the state’s first dual cochlear implant.
It was done on a two-year old boy who had lost his hearing from a severe case of meningitis.
The doctor who performed the surgery says patients who receive only one implant don’t receive all the auditory stimulation, that’s critical to developing speech.
Doctor David Parry also says a dual implant has the best chance of success when it’s done at a very early age, as it was in this case.
Hybrid hearing
4/9/2007
By: Ivanhoe Newswire
SAN FRANCISCO — “When I was about 40, I started noticing a plugged up feeling, like I had a cold,” says Kathy Barger. But she didn’t have a cold. She actually had a hereditary disease that was causing her to go deaf.
“I couldn’t quite hear as distinctly as before,” Barger says. A hearing aid didn’t work, and more bad news was on the way. She didn’t quality for a cochlear implant.
About 28 million Americans are hard of hearing. Many of them have trouble hearing higher frequencies. Hearing aids don’t always help, and devices like cochlear implants are only reserved for the worst cases because they destroy any hearing patients do have.
Barger had too much hearing left to benefit. Then she learned of a new, hybrid version.
Unlike the traditional model, the hybrid cochlear implant only adds high frequencies, so patients can hear distinct sounds, like consonants. The words “sat” and “fat” can both sound like “ahhh.” The hybrid implant allows patients to tell the difference between “Ss” and “Fs.” Continue
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