A cochlear implant surgery will be performed live over the Internet from Tampa General Hospital on July 26, 2007 at 4 p.m. ET on OR-Live.com A cochlear implant is an electronic device that helps provide a sense of sound to people who are deaf or severely hard-of-hearing. Both adults and children can benefit from this procedure.
The implant consists of an external portion that sits behind the ear and an internal portion that is surgically placed under the skin. The surgery will be performed at Tampa General Hospital by Loren Bartels, M.D., F.A.C.S., Director of the Tampa Bay Hearing and Balance Center, and Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. Christopher Danner, M.D., an ear specialist at the Tampa Bay Hearing and Balance Center will narrate the procedure.
