1 IN 20 ADULTS who could benefit from a cochlear implant have one.1 Do your patients struggle to hear on the phone?
Do they struggle in conversations in social settings?
Have they started to withdraw from social activities?
Struggle to find hearing aids powerful enough? Or given up using them?
A panel of international experts on hearing loss has developed a consensus document on the Standard of Care for adults with severe to profound hearing loss who no longer receive sufficient benefit from hearing aids. Patients need to be identified and referred into their local cochlear implant programs. Northern region: www.ncip.org.nz Southern region: www.scip.co.nz For more information visit: www.pindrop.org.nz Delphi Consensus Group on Cochlear Implantation in Adults, Buchman et al, JAMA Oto. 2020
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“This cochlear implant gave me something I threw out long ago.....
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Hope.” Sorkin DL. Cochlear implantation in the world’s largest medical device market: utilization and awareness of cochlear implants in the United States. Cochlear Implants Int. 2013;14 (suppl 1):S4-12. 1