Use hearing aids but struggle to hear well enough? Take part in the COACH trial.
March 3, 2022
Take part in research comparing hearing aids to a cochlear implant in adults with severe to profound deafness. NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) examines all the evidence to decide guidelines for clinical treatment. Based on the current evidence, adults may be offered a cochlear implant on the NHS when they have at …
Hearing aids versus a cochlear implant – which is better for adults with severe hearing loss?
March 29, 2021
Well, for adults who have hearing loss equal to or greater than 80dB, NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) advise that a cochlear implant is better. But what about adults who just miss out on this cut-off point? People with hearing loss between 70dB and 80dB? Well, the evidence isn’t clear – there exists a ‘grey …
International Cochlear Implant Day
February 25, 2021
Cochlear implants can help even the most profoundly deafened people to hear. They capture sounds and digitise them – turn them into electrical signals – before relaying these signals directly to the inner ear, or the cochlea. Here, the signals excite the hearing nerve which then sends impulses to the brain so the person can …
Can I have an MRI scan when I use cochlear implants?
August 19, 2020
We want to improve the experience for people who use cochlear implants and need to have an MRI scan. Please help us by completing our survey. Physicist, Dr Rebecca Dewey, explains more. If you use a cochlear implant, please consider completing this 15-minute survey: https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/ci_comfort. It’s entirely anonymous, and you can complete …
