Evaluation of five different cochlear implant designs: audiologic assessment and predictors of performance.

Autor: Gantz, B J, Tyler, R S, Knutson, J F, Woodworth, G, Abbas, P, McCabe, B F, Hinrichs, J, Tye-Murray, N, Lansing, C, Kuk, F
Zdroj: Laryngoscope; 1988, Vol. 98 Issue 10, p1100-1106, 7p
Abstrakt: The audiologic performance of 54 postlingually deafened adults wearing cochlear implants was uniformly evaluated. The participants had 9 months' or more experience with one of five different cochlear prostheses (Los Angeles Single Channel (N = 11), Vienna Single Channel (N = 4), Melbourne Multichannel (N = 18), Utah Multichannel (N = 19), San Francisco Multichannel (N = 2). The multichannel designs enabled participants to recognize more environmental sounds, provided more speech reading enhancement, and enabled most users to understand limited speech in the sound-only condition, compared to the single-channel implant group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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