Complications of bone-anchored hearing aid implantation

• Published in: Journal of laryngology and otology Vol. 124; no. 2; pp. 132 - 136
• Main Authors: Hobson, J C, Roper, A J, Andrew, R, Rothera, M P, Hill, P, Green, K M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.02.2010
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Airway management; Audit departments; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child, Preschool; Cochlear Implantation - adverse effects; Diseases of the ear; Ear, auditive nerve, cochleovestibular tract, facial nerve: diseases, semeiology; Ent and stomatology; Female; Hearing Aids; Hearing Loss; Hearing Loss, Sensorineural - surgery; Humans; Infections; Local anesthesia; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Non tumoral diseases; Osseointegration; Ostomy; Otorhinolaryngology. Stomatology; Patients; Postoperative Complications; Prostheses; Prostheses And Implants; Radiation therapy; Radiotherapy. Instrumental treatment. Physiotherapy. Reeducation. Rehabilitation, orthophony, crenotherapy. Diet therapy and various other treatments (general aspects); Reoperation - utilization; Retrospective Studies; Surgeons; Surgery; Surgical Wound Infection; Surgical Wound Infection - etiology; Temporal Bone - surgery; Titanium; Treatment Outcome; United States > US; Adult; Treatment Outcome; Retrospective Studies; Surgical Wound Infection; Child; Postoperative Complications; Prostheses And Implants; Hearing Loss; Hearing Aids; Prognosis; Auditory disorder; ENT; ENT disease; Complication; Evolution; Human; Surgical wound; Postoperative; Implant; Instrumentation therapy; Implantation; Auditive prosthesis; Retrospective; Hearing loss; Infection; Hearing; Implanted
• ISSN: 0022-2151; 1748-5460
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022215109991708

Bone-anchored hearing aid implantations have been performed in Manchester for over 20 years. This study examined a range of variables that can occur during the implantation process, and the effect they may have on successful outcome. Retrospective study and literature review. Tertiary referral centre in central Manchester. Details of 602 bone-anchored hearing aid implantation procedures were retrieved from the departmental database. The overall complication rate was 23.9 per cent. The rate of revision surgery was 12.1 per cent. This study involved a significantly larger number of patients than any previously reported, similar study. Possible reasons for differences in outcomes, and recommendations for best practice, are discussed.