Product indications
A cochlear implant is intended for the following individuals:
- Individuals aged 12 months to 17 years who have bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and who obtain little or no benefit from binaural hearing aids. Typical preoperative hearing loss of candidates ranges from moderate to profound hearing loss in the low speech frequencies and severe to profound hearing loss in the high frequencies.
- Individuals aged 18 years and older who have bilateral, postlinguistic sensorineural hearing loss and who achieve limited benefit from binaural hearing aids. Typical preoperative hearing loss of adult candidates ranges from moderate to profound hearing loss in the low speech frequencies and severe to profound hearing loss in the high speech frequencies.
- Prelinguistically or perilinguistically deafened individuals aged 18 years and older who have profound sensorineural hearing loss and who obtain no benefit from a hearing aid. These individuals are likely to have limited benefit from a cochlear implant.
ARTG numbers:
CI512 implant 165361
CI513 implant 165362
CP810 sound processor 165764
CR110 remote assistant 165824
Custom Sound v 3.0 165765