ICF in Cochlear Implant Users

Launched by UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, ANTWERP · Oct 26, 2020

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • 1. General
• • Adults aged 18 years or older with postlingual HL
• • Signed and dated informed consent, informed permission and/or minors assent.
• • Willingness to participate in evaluations, test sessions, and medical follow-up sessions as defined in the protocol.
• • Physical and mental competence to participate in fitting of the device and follow-up sessions as defined in the protocol.
• • Fluency in the language of the implanting centre.
• • 2. Audiological
• • Completion of hearing assessment battery showing suitability of the CI candidates.
• • Compliance with cochlear implant candidate selection criteria of the implanting centre.
• • First cochlear implantation
• • 3. Medical
• • Patent cochlea, as evidenced by High-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) and/or Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • 1. General
• • Re-implantation of the cochlear implant
• • No motivation to participate in the study and/or unreasonable expectations.
• • 2. Medical
• • Presence of contra-indications for surgery in general and cochlear implantation in particular.
• • Presence of central auditory lesions.
• • Autoimmune disease, meningitis or ossification of the cochlea.
• • Radiological evaluation indicating malformation or obstruction of the cochlea.
• • Unstable psychological status.
• • Any disorder that may relate to an increased risk of skin flap problems
• • Having received chemotherapy
• • Be a burn victim
• • 3. Use of one of the following electrodes for implantation
• • Compressed
• • Split
• • Any type of custom made electrodes