China News Service, Xiamen, July 25 (Yang Fushan and Zhang Shushan) Statistics show that China is one of the countries with the largest number of hearing-impaired children in the world
The 15th National Symposium on New Technologies for Children’s Hearing Screening and Diagnostic Interventions and the First Otology Clinical Symposium at Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Xiamen University was held in Xiamen from July 23 to 25.
This academic seminar was jointly sponsored by the National Children's Medical Center, the Children's Hospital of Fudan University and the Shanghai Hearing Impairment Diagnosis and Treatment Center
Dean He said that full life cycle service and guarantee is an important first step in the implementation of Healthy China
Cai Chengfu said that the theme of this event focused on children’s hearing impairment and speech rehabilitation.
Professor Xu Zhengmin, Director of the National Children’s Medical Center, Director of the Children’s Department of Children’s Hospital of Fudan University, and Professor Chen Wei, Assistant Director of the National Clinical Research Center for Otorhinolaryngology, were invited to share the diagnosis and rehabilitation strategies for children’s hearing impairment and teach them The latest developments in the current frontiers of the subject
Professor Xu Zhengmin brought new screening technologies such as Chirp-ABR early and accurate diagnosis technology to the participants, and introduced the advantages of early treatment of children's secretory otitis media with eustachian tube balloon dilatation
Professor Cai Chengfu introduced the non-surgical methods for children with cholesteatoma of the middle ear and external auditory canal through specific case analysis, and shared the key points of the treatment of children's cholesteatoma and hearing reconstruction based on personal experience
In an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.
However, he admitted that there are still some patients whose cochlear implants are ineffective or ineffective.
He said that at present, there are several methods for cutting-edge exploration, stem cell transplantation and gene editing technology, which are promising to break through this problem, but from laboratory transformation and technical research, to animal experiment demonstration and pre-clinical research, until the final application To treat deaf patients still needs a process, "but there is always hope, we have been working hard
Hong Yongjun, deputy director of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen University, told reporters that congenital hearing loss is a common developmental disorder that can be screened at birth.
He believes that early childhood hearing screening can enable children to perceive speech to the greatest extent and acquire language skills from it
The seminar also announced the establishment of the Hearing Rehabilitation Special Committee and the Speech-Language Rehabilitation Special Committee of the Xiamen Rehabilitation Medicine Association.
Committee member
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