HearPeers Heroes Mary Beth Posted November 29, 2022 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted November 29, 2022 Personalized medicine is becoming more commonplace in some fields. I think this will be true for cochlear implants as well… an individualized approach to cochlear implants- from selecting electrode arrays to match our unique cochleas to setting frequency ranges for each electrode based on its position in our cochlea after surgery as evidenced by imaging. I am happy Med-El is such a pioneer for individualized cochlear implants. I’m not surprised by this though because I know of people who required very unique electrode arrays due to their cochleas and Med-El designed them. And Med-El also offers triphasic pulses for those users who experience facial stimulation issues or non auditory stimulation issues. In these ways Med-El has always been focused on individualized cochlear implants. It’s exciting. I look forward to what Med-El has in store for us in the future. Thank you @MED-EL Moderator https://hearlife.medel.com/en-us/local/us-pages/medel-cochlear-implant-individualization?fbclid=IwAR3jREYVpvUvbUHyi7fcA36Ek9V05VB7DO9Z2svaMYzmIndrjNaROcyIE4c Lauren, Jimit and Kylie 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Mary Beth Posted December 9, 2022 Author HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted December 9, 2022 Another article about personalized medicine in the field of otology. I found this statement interesting… ”Furthermore, bilateral implantation using a single internal device and a single processor will allow true binaural stereophonic hearing with excellent sound perception in noise” https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/12/11/1820 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Mary Beth Posted December 9, 2022 Author HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted December 9, 2022 This link shows how OTOPLAN allows Med-El to individualize the CI process https://www.cascination.com/en/otoplan Dianna 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dianna Posted December 9, 2022 Report Share Posted December 9, 2022 Interesting! Hope its available for my next ci! The university center i go to was working on fda approval for an insertion tool, interesting stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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