New tool for operations on people with severe or profound auditory loss

Friday, March 12, 2010 - 10:42 in Health & Medicine

Engineers and doctors have designed a new tool for operating on the inner ear with maximum precision, reducing the possibility of damage to the auditory function during the surgery. This is the first micromanipulator specifically for operations involving cochlear and middle ear implants, of which about a hundred are carried out in this hospital annually.

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