Post-implantation music training has significant benefits in enhancing music perception in CI users, specifically in music instrument recognition, melodic contour identification, and emotion discernment; younger age, longer duration of music training, and bilateral CI use are positive predictors of success.
Electrocochleography (ECoG) has historically been used for measuring hearing thresholds and identifying endolymphatic hydrops in Ménière’s disease. More recently, ECoG application has expanded to monitor electrical potentials during cochlear implantation as an indirect measure of cochlear trauma.
Although American Academy of Audiology guidelines call for six to eight aftercare appointments, this criterion can strain in-clinic resources and pose hardships. Reducing to a four-appointment EBM approach delivered efficient and effective audiological aftercare to cochlear implant recipients in the first year.
ABI remains the standard option for surgical hearing rehabilitation in NF2, but peak performance is generally lower than that achievable with CIs.
Current data supports a high level of perioperative and long-term safety for elderly patients undergoing CI
Literature shows a decrease of mean tinnitus questionnaire score after unilateral cochlear implantation; however, there is also a chance of increasing burden of existing tinnitus