A medical team headed by Dr. Ibrahim Shami, ENT consultant and King Saud University Fellowship doctor at King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Riyadh, performed a hybrid implant in the inner ear, in the first operation of its kind in the region.
This process was preceded by a long preparation by the team that included Dr. Ibrahim Shami and both Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Senussi and Dr. Abdul Rahman Hajar. This is one of the results of the global scientific partnership established by Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Chair for Auditory Disability Research and Headphones Transplant.
The patient who underwent the operation was suffering from severe hearing impairment in recovering high hearing with some hearing at low frequencies which makes it difficult for him to benefit well from traditional headphones, and hybrid headphones are the latest global technology in solving hearing problems for this category of patients and requires experience and skill High when conducted, and the operation was performed with an integrated Saudi medical staff.
The idea of ​​the device is to hybridize cochlear implants with digital headphones in the same ear, which gives better results than the earphone alone or cochlear implant alone, and this new technology has opened treatment prospects for many patients who have been able to take advantage of hearing residues at low frequencies and strengthen them with headphones in addition to their ability From hearing the high frequencies using cochlear implantation, both of which work consistently in the same ear at the same time, as the new device is implanted through a surgery similar to cochlear implantation that takes about an hour and then the device is programmed during the process to make sure And then amusing is installed the device after a few weeks of the operation and for the patient who underwent the operation at King Abdulaziz University Hospital has been his machine and make sure the experience of his work.
Dr. Abdul Rahman Hajar, who supervises the chair of Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz for hearing disability and headphones transplantation, said that the message of the research chairs is based on the partnership between King Saud University and the Saudi community to reach globalization, which is first and foremost in the interest of the country and the citizen. This is a national duty that we are proud of in the example of King Saud University. His Excellency the President of the University, Dr. Abdullah Al-Othman, who assured everyone that what university hospitals offer is a national duty that all those in charge of this advanced medical edifice can be proud of. Likewise, Prince Sultan’s chair and all those in charge of it will spare no effort in documenting the strong bonds between the King Saud University and society to reach globalization in the field of knowledge in addition to transferring the latest technology to our dear kingdom, and this is what is recommended by the chairpersons at King Saud University, headed by the Vice President Dr. Ali Al-Ghamdi.
Dr. Abdul Rahman Hajar, Director of the King Saud University Fellowship for Precise Specialization of the Ear and Ear Nerves, expressed his great happiness for what this young fellowship achieved in qualifying the national cadres to carry out many difficult and complex operations in the field of ear until its reputation became available and many consultants from inside and outside the Kingdom provided it The only one in the Middle East and recognized by the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, and thanks to all those responsible for this fellowship and to the Department of Ear, Nose and Throat and the College of Medicine and its dean, Dr. Musaed Al Salman.