Cochlear Implants
by Jamie Schwartz

Introducing the Nucleus® 7 Bimodal Solution

October 5, 2017
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Two global leaders in the hearing loss industry, Cochlear and ReSound, are now partners!

Give your patients the opportunity for a richer and more natural hearing experience with the new Nucleus 7 Smart bimodal hearing solution1, the world’s first and only bimodal solution that is Made for iPhone.2 Your patients with a Cochlear Nucleus® 7 Sound Processor and a compatible ReSound LiNX3D™ hearing aid* can now stream sound simultaneously to both ears from a compatible Apple® device.± With a smart bimodal hearing solution they can use their iPhone® to:Nucleus 7 sound processor compatibility

  • Connect with others on the phone with confidence and improved understanding3
  • Rediscover the joy of music, movies and entertainment
  • Easily control their device settings through the Nucleus® Smart App directly on their iPhone®
  • Locate the sound processor with Find my Sound Processor functionality

Compared to using two hearing aids, a bimodal hearing solution is proven to help people understand speech and improve the clarity of words in various listening environments, including noisy listening situations.4, 5, 6 The benefits of bimodal hearing also include the following:

  • Improved hearing in quiet and noise
  • Better sound quality and music appreciation7
  • Prevention of auditory deprivation8
  • Improved ease of listening9, 10
  • Superior sound localization11Nucleus 7 Bimodal Solution

Cochlear promises to provide your patients with the best possible hearing solution, plus reliability that lasts a lifetime. With more than 30 years of quality and innovation, we have helped over 450,000 people who have chosen Cochlear solutions. You can feel confident that Cochlear is also here to support you, as you support your patients.

Visit our Bimodal Solution webpage today to learn more!

 
* With compatible ReSound hearing aids. A list of compatible hearing aids is available online at: www.cochlear.com/nucleus/compatibility
± A list of compatible Apple devices can be found at the bottom of this document.
References:
  1. Sammeth CA, Bundy MBM, D. A. (2011) Bimodal Hearing or Bilateral Cochlear Implants: A Review of the Research Literature. Semin Hear 32:3-31.
  2. Apple support. 2017 [cited 24 February 2017]. Available from: https://support. apple.com/en-au/HT201466#compatible.
  3. Cochlear Limited, D1182081. CLTD 5620 Clinical Evaluation of Nucleus 7 Cochlear Implant System. 2017, Mar; Data on file.
  4. Gottermeier L, De Filippo C, Clark C. Trials of a Contralateral Hearing Aid After Long-Term Unilateral Cochlear Implant Use in Early-Onset Deafness. American journal of audiology. 2016 Jun 1;25(2):85-99.
  5. Dorman MF, Gifford RH, Spahr AJ, McKarns SA. The benefits of combining acoustic and electric stimulation for the recognition of speech, voice and melodies. Audiology and Neurotology. 2008;13(2):105-12.
  6. Gifford RH, Dorman MF, McKarns SA, Spahr AJ. Combined electric and contralateral acoustic hearing: Word and sentence recognition with bimodal hearing. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 2007 Aug 1;50(4):835-43.
  7. Sucher CM, McDermott HJ. Bimodal stimulation: benefits for music perception and sound quality. Cochlear Implants International. 2009 Jan 1;10(S1):96-9.
  8. Ching TY, Van Wanrooy E, Dillon H. Binaural-bimodal fitting or bilateral implantation for managing severe to profound deafness: a review. Trends in amplification. 2007 Sep 1;11(3):161-92.
  9. Hamzavi J, Marcel Pok S, Gstoettner W, Baumgartner WD. Speech perception with a cochlear implant used in conjunction with a hearing aid in the opposite ear. International journal of audiology. 2004 Jan 1;43(2):61-5.
  10. Ching TY, Incerti P, Hill M. Binaural benefits for adults who use hearing aids and cochlear implants in opposite ears. Ear and hearing. 2004 Feb 1;25(1):9-21.
  11. Potts LG, Skinner MW, Litovsky RA, Strube MJ, Kuk F. Recognition and localization of speech by adult cochlear implant recipients wearing a digital hearing aid in the nonimplanted ear (bimodal hearing). Journal of the American Academy of Audiology. 2009 Jun 1;20(6):353-73.
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The Nucleus 7 Sound Processor is compatible with iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone SE, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5, iPad Pro (12.9-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Air 2, iPad Air, iPad mini 4, iPad mini 3, iPad mini 2, iPad mini, iPad (4th generation), iPod touch (6th generation) and iPod touch (5th generation) using iOS 10.0 or later. Apple, the Apple logo, Made for iPad logo, Made for iPhone logo, Made for iPod logo, iPhone, iPad Pro, iPad Air, iPad mini, iPad and iPod touch are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Information accurate as of June 2017
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Jamie is the Associate Marketing Manager in the Product and Professional Marketing Department at Cochlear Americas. Jamie is responsible for ProNews blog content as well as professional social posts and calendars. If you are interested in being a guest author for the ProNews blog please contact Jamie by email at jschwartz@cochlear.com.

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Preventing listening fatigue this holiday season with tips from Dr. Sarah Hughes

December 20, 2021

By Sarah E. Hughes B.Sc., M.H.Sc.,Ph.D., Research Fellow, Centre for Patient Reported Outcome Research, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Here are some tips to making sure your patients can be a part of the conversations and moments that they care about the most:

Tips from an expert to manage listening effort during the holidays

As cochlear implant recipients, your patients may find that they are extremely tired by the end of the day. Interestingly, recipients often fail to connect their fatigue with listening and the increased effort needed to ensure listening success.

Listening effort is a term used to describe the exertion of brain power used to pay attention and understand spoken language.

It’s important for recipients to appreciate that listening effort is a part of what it means to listen with a hearing loss. Hearing is something that happens without us being aware of it taking place. Listening, however, is active. It is something we ‘do.’ When listening conditions are favorable this happens easily and we are not aware of the effort involved.

However, when conditions are challenging, such as listening with a hearing loss, a listener is required to do additional mental work to enable them to understand speech, music or identify sounds in the environment.

If recipients expect to listen in the same way as hearing family and friends, they may be putting a lot of added pressure onto themselves. The extra pressure is stressful and can actually be counter-productive. Listening well may be possible in short periods, but over longer periods can become exhausting and can quickly lead to fatigue.

The good news is that recipients tell us when they make the effort to listen with their cochlear implant (s) that they feel a greater sense of social connectedness – the feeling of being in close personal contact with the world around them.

Cochlear™ CoPilot helps with strategies for the holidays

There are a number of strategies that can help manage your recipients’ energy levels for listening. Cochlear CoPilot is a mobile app that features information and insights from experts plus advice from other recipients.

Here are some tips for your patients from Cochlear CoPilot to get started:

  1. Recognize that listening with hearing loss requires effort.
  2. Schedule breaks in advance for times when you know that listening will be intensive or challenging.
  3. Allow yourself downtime to give your brain a listening break. Spend some time doing activities that don’t require you to listen very much – read, exercise, or meditate.
  4. Plan your day so that challenging tasks and activities are scheduled when you have the energy.
  5. Remember that good nutrition and adequate sleep play an important role in managing your energy.
  6. Take a short break when you find yourself straining to listen. This could happen at work, during meetings, social events or even when you are simply tired.
  7. Step away and tune out to reduce stimulation and help to de-stress and refresh.
  8. Prioritize activities that are most important to you during the holiday season such as family get togethers or social events. This will help ensure that you have enough energy for those listening-based activities that are special.

While it might not always be possible to fully schedule the day around upcoming listening demands, having an awareness that listening effort can impact energy level means they will be more likely to take a break from listening when applicable. Planning in advance enables your recipients to be at their best when listening really matters.

To find out more about listening effort, preventing listening fatigue at the holidays and practical tips from other recipients, download Cochlear CoPilot.

About the author: Dr. Hughes is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for Patient Reported Outcome Research (CPROR) at the Institute of Applied Health, University of Birmingham in the UK. She received her M.H.Sc in speech-language pathology from the University of Toronto, Canada, and her PhD at Swansea University Medical School, Wales, UK where she was a James Callaghan Scholar whose research focused on the development and validation of a new patient-reported outcome measure of listening effort in adult cochlear implant recipients.  Dr. Hughes has worked on several collaborations with the Australian Hearing Hub and the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, and she is a Core Member of the Adult Rehabilitation Special Interest Group, British Society of Audiology.

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Newly published: First-ever global consensus on use of cochlear implants in adults

September 1, 2020

The first global consensus on the use of cochlear implants for the management of bilateral moderate to profound, or moderate sloping to profound hearing loss in adults was published online on August 27, 2020 in JAMA Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery.1

According to Professor Craig Buchman, Chair of the Consensus Delphi Process and Head of Otolaryngology –Washington University School of Medicine, the consensus is a major landmark in the treatment of hearing loss.

“The International Consensus Paper is the culmination of a systematic review and a consensus process, put together to inform steps towards establishing clear and consistent guidelines, and best practices for the evaluation and management of patients with moderate to profound, or worse, sensorineural hearing loss, including cochlear implants and their aftercare, so they can reach their optimal hearing outcome and attain the best quality of life.”

The paper covers seven categories across the whole care path.

Representatives from seven cochlear implant user and professional advocacy organizations provided comments throughout the process. One of the representatives, Barbara Kelley, President of the Hearing Loss Association of America described the consensus as a call to action for those involved in organising, delivering and receiving hearing health care.

“Globally, for up to 53 million hard of hearing people hearing aids might not be enough. The consensus empowers them to explore their opportunities with cochlear implant treatment” added Barbara Kelley.

Conservative estimates suggest that worldwide, only 1 in 20 adults who could benefit from a cochlear implant have one.2,3

About the consensus method

The process was guided by the non-voting Chair, Professor Buchman, supported by four voting steering committee members. The Delphi panel comprised of an additional 26 experts in the field of CI use, including audiologists and ear, nose and throat specialists across 13 countries. The seven representatives from international hard of hearing, CI user and professional advocacy organisations provided comments throughout the process.

Learn more

Read the scientific publication.

Register to attend the recorded Audiology Online course featuring Delphi panel members René Gifford, PhD and Terry Zwolan, PhD.

Visit the online professional portal with summaries of the evidence supporting the global consensus as well as more information on the CAPAC  www.adulthearing.com

References

  1. Buchman et al. JAMA Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery1.2020
  1. Sorkin DL. Cochlear implantation in the world’s largest medical device market: utilization and awareness of cochlear implants in the United States. Cochlear implants international. 2013 Mar 1;14(sup1):S12-4.
  2. De Raeve L. Cochlear implants in Belgium: Prevalence in paediatric and adult cochlear implantation. European annals of otorhinolaryngology, head and neck diseases. 2016 Jun 1;133:S57-60.

The Delphi process and medical writing support have been funded by Advanced Bionics, Cochlear Ltd, MED-EL and Oticon Medical. The funding organizations did not contribute to the design, facilitation or content of the Delphi consensus process. 

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