Education
Iowa Head and Neck Protocols
To you help you make clinical decisions, our department offers online reference management protocols to help you with strategies for diseases and disorders of the head and neck. The Iowa Head and Neck Protocols offers a multilingual reference for:
- Instrumentation
- Step-by-step clinical protocols
- Nursing instructions
Long–running continuing education courses in head and neck cancer and sinus endoscopy.
Stories of Hope
Hybrid Implant
Cochlear implants might not be just for the profoundly deaf anymore: University of Iowa neuroscientists are developing the next generation, a "hybrid implant" to combine the best of bionics with regular hearing aids for age–related hearing loss.
If it works–and early results are promising–it may one day help older Americans whose hearing is progressively fading. The device might also someday benefit people with hearing loss from noise exposure and drugs.
The key difference: Unlike regular cochlear implants, the hybrid model would let people keep their natural music appreciation even as it helps them hear speech more clearly again.
Bruce Gantz, MD, professor and head of the UI Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery invented the hybrid model now being evaluated at 26 medical centers around the U.S