The COVID-19 pandemic and upgrades of CI speech processors for children: part I—procedure of speech processor upgrade

PURPOSE: To demonstrate the feasibility of upgrading speech processors during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: Adopting concepts from “lean thinking”, we optimized hospital workflows to allow speech processors to be upgraded despite the obstacles arising from national guidelines for COVID-19 preventi...

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Autores principales: Obrycka, Anita, Lorens, Artur, Walkowiak, Adam, Wlodarczyk, Elzbieta, Dziendziel, Beata, Skarzynski, Piotr Henryk, Skarzynski, Henryk
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022
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Otology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8881188/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35217905
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-022-07278-x
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author Obrycka, Anita
Lorens, Artur
Walkowiak, Adam
Wlodarczyk, Elzbieta
Dziendziel, Beata
Skarzynski, Piotr Henryk
Skarzynski, Henryk
author_facet Obrycka, Anita
Lorens, Artur
Walkowiak, Adam
Wlodarczyk, Elzbieta
Dziendziel, Beata
Skarzynski, Piotr Henryk
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description PURPOSE: To demonstrate the feasibility of upgrading speech processors during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: Adopting concepts from “lean thinking”, we optimized hospital workflows to allow speech processors to be upgraded despite the obstacles arising from national guidelines for COVID-19 prevention. The study involved 297 children, aged from 7.3 to 18.0 years, whose processors were upgraded on five consecutive Saturdays during a time of peak COVID-19 in Poland. RESULTS: The optimized workflow allowed us to conduct speech processor upgrades during a time of peak COVID-19 in Poland. The upgrades were conducted as scheduled, patient flow was smooth, appropriate social distancing was kept, and no reports of COVID-19 infection in our patients in the 2 weeks after their visit were received. CONCLUSION: Upgrading of speech processors in children is still feasible under coronavirus conditions.
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spelling pubmed-88811882022-02-28 The COVID-19 pandemic and upgrades of CI speech processors for children: part I—procedure of speech processor upgrade Obrycka, Anita Lorens, Artur Walkowiak, Adam Wlodarczyk, Elzbieta Dziendziel, Beata Skarzynski, Piotr Henryk Skarzynski, Henryk Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol Otology PURPOSE: To demonstrate the feasibility of upgrading speech processors during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: Adopting concepts from “lean thinking”, we optimized hospital workflows to allow speech processors to be upgraded despite the obstacles arising from national guidelines for COVID-19 prevention. The study involved 297 children, aged from 7.3 to 18.0 years, whose processors were upgraded on five consecutive Saturdays during a time of peak COVID-19 in Poland. RESULTS: The optimized workflow allowed us to conduct speech processor upgrades during a time of peak COVID-19 in Poland. The upgrades were conducted as scheduled, patient flow was smooth, appropriate social distancing was kept, and no reports of COVID-19 infection in our patients in the 2 weeks after their visit were received. CONCLUSION: Upgrading of speech processors in children is still feasible under coronavirus conditions. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-02-26 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8881188/ /pubmed/35217905 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-022-07278-x Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
spellingShingle Otology
Obrycka, Anita
Lorens, Artur
Walkowiak, Adam
Wlodarczyk, Elzbieta
Dziendziel, Beata
Skarzynski, Piotr Henryk
Skarzynski, Henryk
The COVID-19 pandemic and upgrades of CI speech processors for children: part I—procedure of speech processor upgrade
title The COVID-19 pandemic and upgrades of CI speech processors for children: part I—procedure of speech processor upgrade
title_full The COVID-19 pandemic and upgrades of CI speech processors for children: part I—procedure of speech processor upgrade
title_fullStr The COVID-19 pandemic and upgrades of CI speech processors for children: part I—procedure of speech processor upgrade
title_full_unstemmed The COVID-19 pandemic and upgrades of CI speech processors for children: part I—procedure of speech processor upgrade
title_short The COVID-19 pandemic and upgrades of CI speech processors for children: part I—procedure of speech processor upgrade
title_sort covid-19 pandemic and upgrades of ci speech processors for children: part i—procedure of speech processor upgrade
topic Otology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8881188/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35217905
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-022-07278-x
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