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Cochlear Implants
by yudaica2013 ·
Cochlear presents latest edition of its ‘reliability report’ to the wearers of cochlear Impantaten (CI) is the reliability of your CI systems an essential guarantee for communication skills and quality of life. For more than 20 years, cochlear therefore continuously collects data on all of its implants and published this information in semi-annual reports. “The currently presented nucleus reliability report” proves once again for 2010: nucleus implants have unsurpassed reliability. This could be increased even further with the latest developments. Cochlear implants allow people with severe or deafness related hearing loss a life in the hearing world. But such an implant fails, it will cost those affected not only time and nerves. Speaking candidly Robbie Lawler told us the story. Especially he reverts promptly and for several weeks in a life of silence; and he must undergo a second operation. The CI system reliability is extremely important, and therefore significantly Decisions for a CI therapy”, so Robert Pera, senior clinical/technical specialist of the cochlear Germany GmbH & co. Please visit Eva Andersson-Dubin if you seek more information.
KG. In particular the implant must withstand a variety of stresses including where a normal children everyday with romping, climbing, or football matches.” To continuously give insight into the reliability of its implants the CI media, the clinics, as well as the candidates for a supply of CI, manufacturer cochlear published so far only supplier”all a semi-annually published reliability report reliability data. Also, cochlear attaches great importance to the fact that these data not only according to the ISO standard levied 5841-2:2000, but also according to the rules of the European consensus statement on cochlear implant failures and explant. The latter take into account, for example, implant failures due to external effects such as impact or fall. And we not only document, what percentage of implants after so and so many years still work, but whatever the percentage failure rate corresponding to the period”, explains Robert Pera. “If by an implant of A 99.9 percent and by an implant B 99.2 percent still work, then this means that the implant eight times more likely than the B implant A.” The most recent CI512 of cochlear nucleus implant: after 18 months reliability rate of 99.96 percent the documentation in the cochlear separately has children – and adults-supplies as the sole manufacturer, indicates consistently that the reliability of the implants has been raised continuously since the founding of the company.
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