stethoscope for a child
A medical team at the Armed Forces Hospital in Riyadh achieved a medical achievement This is by performing a rare operation for a five-year-old child who suffers from severe hearing loss and external auditory canal deformities.
This led to the child losing the sense of hearing permanently, and it was clear from the initial examinations that there were congenital abnormalities in the right ear and poor hearing. This was explained by the Director of the Armed Forces Hospital in Riyadh, Major General Doctor Saeed bin Muhammad Al Asmari. For his part, the attending physician, Dr. Khabti Al-Muhanna - a consultant otorhinolaryngologist - confirmed that after conducting the necessary examinations and x-rays, the necessity of the operation, which is considered the first implantation of a bone stethoscope 0 which is called "Baha" - at the Armed Forces Hospital in Riyadh.
He pointed out that conducting such operations is considered a quantum leap, but it has not gained the necessary popularity among doctors and the general public due to the scarcity of such operations. Where the bony stethoscope "Baha" is implanted behind the ear, and it delivers sound directly to the inner ear without the need to pass through the outer and middle ear.
Al-Muhanna stressed that these headphones benefit a large segment of patients with hearing loss resulting from congenital abnormalities in the outer or middle ear, and these headphones also benefit patients who are unable to wear traditional headphones due to frequent ear infections or severe conductive hearing impairment.
