Richard J. Wiet

Section I. Introduction to Routine and Advanced Ear Surgery 1. General Requirements for Anesthesia in Routine Ear and Skull Base Operations --Clark/Nitsun/Szokol 2. Audiometric Requirements Prior to Ear Surgery: Pitfalls -- Kileny/Berryhill 3. Intraoperative Monitoring of Cranial Nerves During Otological Surgery: Prevention --Novak/Nenonene/Bernstein 4. Imaging of the Temporal Bone -- Valvassori Section II. Surgery for Hearing 5. Correction of Congenital Malformations -- De La Cruz/Hansen 6. Risks and Complications of Tympanoplasty -- Farrior 7. Evaluating Blunt Temporal Bone Trauma -- Dinces/Kim/Wiet 8. Prevention of Complications in Stapes Surgery -- Perkins 9. Ossicular Chain Reconstruction: Maximizing Success and Minimizing Errors -- Kartush/Babu 10. Avoiding Complications of Cochlear Implant Surgery -- Cohen/Marrinan Section III. Surgery for Vertigo/Dizziness 11. Surgery for Benign Paroxysmal Postural Vertigo -- Battista 12. Meniere s Disease: Diagnosis and Management -- Wiet/Kim 13. Diagnosis and Surgical Management of Dizziness and Vertigo -- Garcia-Ibanez/Kumar 14. Meniette Device and Chemical Labyrinthectomy For Unilateral Cochleovestibular -- Gates Section IV. Surgery for Infection 15. Pathology of Temporal Bone Related to Chronic Ear Disease -- Wenig, BM 16. Intact Canal Wall Tympanomastoidectomy -- Massick/Welling 17. Philosophy of Cholesteatoma Management -- Fayad/Parisier 18. Obliteration Operations -- Esquivel 19. Cholesterol Granuloma -- Brackmann/Antonio 20. Complications of Cholesteatoma / Chronic OME -- Antonio/Slattery Section V. Tumors of the Temporal Bone and Related Skull Base 21. Management of Acoustic Neuromas -- Wiet/Ho 22. Middle Ear and Skull Base Glomus Tumors: Tympanic and Tympano-Jugular -- Sanna/De Donato/Russo 23. Rarer Tumors of the Middle Ear and Temporal Bone -- Brackmann/Antonio Section VI. Surgery of the Facial Nerve 24. Tumors of the Facial Nerve -- Linder/Fisch 25. Surgery in Bell s Palsy and in Traumatic Facial Paralysis -- Kumar 26. Facial Reanimation and Eye Care -- Goldenberg/Wenig, BL Section VII. Newer Trends in Ear Surgery 27. Office-Based Minor Surgery: Otoendoscopy and Inner Ear Perfusion -- Silverstein/Jackson 28. Neuronavigation in the Temporal Bone -- Fraysse/Kim/Wiet 29. The Implantable Middle Ear Amplifier -- Frederickson/Bankaitis 30. Intratympanic Therapy for Hearing Loss -- Chandrasekhar

-First book focusing on error prevention and safety in ear surgery
-Detailed coverage of indications and contraindications, testing procedures, alternatives, monitoring techniques and more