How Can We Compare Cochlear Implant Systems across Manufacturers? A Scoping Review of Recent Literature.

ABSTRACT: Electric stimulation via a cochlear implant (CI) enables people with severe-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss to regain speech understanding and music appreciation and, thus, allow them to actively engage in social life. Three main manufacturers (Cochlear^TM, MED-EL^TM, and Advanced Bionics^TM "AB") have been offering CI systems, thus challenging CI recipients and otolaryngologists with a difficult decision as currently no comprehensive overview or meta-analysis on performance outcomes following CI implantation is available. The main goals of this scoping review were to (1) map the literature on speech and music performance outcomes and to (2) find whether studies have performed outcome comparisons between devices of different manufacturers. To this end,

SUBMITTER: Tzvi-Minker E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10604631 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature