Bimodal Stimulation Compared to Unilateral Cochlear Implant

Assiut University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Hearing Impaired Children

Treatments: Device: hearing aid

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04093830

bimodal hearing

Details and patient eligibility

About

The majority of studies about bimodal hearing advantages have been conducted on adults but scant relevant studies into pediatric users, therefore more comparative studies are required to compare the effect of bimodal stimulation to unilateral cochlear implant use in children with severe to profound sensori-neural hearing loss .

Full description

There are now many recipients of unilateral cochlear implants who have usable residual hearing in the non-implanted ear. To avoid auditory deprivation and to provide binaural hearing, a hearing aid or a second cochlear implant can be fitted to that ear. When bilateral cochlear implant cannot be used for patients with bilateral hearing impairment, a hearing aid can be used in their non- implanted ear with residual hearing. This is because patients with bilateral hearing loss need bilateral stimulation to develop the neural pathway required for central processing of binaural hearing.

Enrollment: 25 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. The lack of middle-ear infection.
2. Normative intelligence.
3. The lack of auditory neuropathy disorder .
4. Residual hearing in the non-implanted ear.

Exclusion criteria

1. Middle ear infection..
2. Below average intelligence.
3. Auditory neuropathy disorder.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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25 participants in 1 patient group

pre-lingually deafened children with cochlear implant

Experimental group

Description:

pre-lingually deafened children with cochlear implant who continuously used bimodal hearing.

Treatment:

Device: hearing aid