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Benefits

  • 🔑🔑🔑🔑🔑 Restoring hearing in deaf ear

    🔑🔑🔑🔑🔑 Binaural hearing

    🔑🔑🔑🔑 Decreased head shadow / improved SNR / improvement in summation & squelch

    🔑🔑🔑🔑 Better localization and directionality

  • 🔑🔑🔑🔑 MRI conditionality

  • 🔑🔑🔑🔑 Increased confidence in social situations

    🔑🔑🔑 Decreased fatigue

    🔑🔑🔑🔑 Increased listening and language acquisition in children

    🔑🔑🔑🔑 Increased scholastic performance

    🔑🔑🔑🔑 Increased quality of life and opportunities for individual recipients (also elderlys QoL)

    🔑🔑🔑 Increased music appreciation

    🔑🔑🔑🔑 Tinnitus reduction

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low importance for patients

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the highest importance for patients

Cochlear Implant

This section outlines the benefits and drawbacks of a cochlear implant, categorized into three key domains: audiological aspect, medical aspect, and patient-reported aspects.

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Each publication listed below is rated by its importance for patients, using a Hearring key icon scale 🔑— one key for low importance, three keys for medium importance, and five keys for high importance.

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Drawbacks

  • 🔑🔑🔑🔑 Intensive counselling needed to raise realistic expectations

  • 🔑🔑🔑 Cl requires life long aftercare

    🔑🔑🔑🔑 Not applicable in cases with congenital cochlear nerve deficiency (e.g. congenital SSD) or acquired nerve absence (e.g. following vestibular schwannoma surgery)

    🔑🔑🔑 MRI artifacts

  • 🔑🔑🔑🔑 Need for rehab

    🔑🔑🔑🔑 Acceptance of Cl hearing

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