Cochlear Implants: Audiologic Management and Considerations for Implantable Hearing Devices 1st Edition

I am an audiologist and I am training about CI. This book has been a tremendous help and it covers everything!

Jace has been a longtime friend and colleague; and in fact you can see my reviews of his & UNT's Erin Schafer's 1st & 2nd editions of "Programming Cochlear Implants" on those Amazon pages. Not only that; but I had discussions on the few esoteric electronics shortfalls in the first edition with both Jace and Erin; and they were fully addressed in the second edition.As a longtime (35+ year) Electrical Engineer in the audiologic engineering discipline, there are Very Few Audiologists I would count as Electrical Engineering colleagues: Jace is one of the four, maybe five, audiologists in the world who can understand signals & systems.FULL DISCLAIMER: I have not yet bought the book; but knowing Jace, it's been well–vetted by engineers before it went to press; and when I start to work with CI's again, I'll buy it.One Minor Issue .NOT. Jace's fault: There are actually FOUR major CI manufacturers (five if you count the garbage Nurotron from China, sold only in the Third World): For several years, Oticon Medical (which purchased France's Neurelec) has had the CE marque from TÜV (EU, UK, Canada, etc… Sorta like a combination of UL & FDA) for their 20–channel CI with an outstanding front end; but FDA clinical trials which were supposed to start at the beginning of 2020 have been postponed at least 18 months due to SARS–CoVid–19. Because of this, Jace hasn't had any hands–on experience with those devices… But I'm rather sure the 2nd edition of the book will address this issue.Hence, I'm throwing the caution flag to non–US buyers, especially if their clinic is in a country which recognizes the CE marque.Dan SchwartzEditor, The Hearing BlogAtlanta

This book is huge and packed full of information. I needed it for a class and I must tip my hat to the authors/publishers for their business sense. A large portion of the book is dedicated to the current technologies for the 3 big manufacturers so as soon as they come out with something new, this text will be old news. It is a sneaky way to ensure that future students will need to buy the newest edition rather than rent older ones.I think that there could be hundreds of pages shaved off of this book without taking away from the content. The quality of the book is very high and it is likely the most thorough source available for all things CI, but outside of students I'm not really sure who will need it. I don't know of many Au.Ds that work with all three companies so this book may be rather superfluous for most practicing Au.Ds.