Cuda Domenico, Murri Alessandra, Mainardi Anna, Chalupper Josef
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Guglielmo da Saliceto Hospital, Piacenza, Italy.
Advanced Bionics GmbH, European Research Center, Hannover, Germany.
Audiol Res. 2019 May 9;9(1):219. doi: 10.4081/audiores.2019.219. eCollection 2019 May 6.
The population of unilateral cochlear implant (CI) users with aidable residual hearing in the contralateral ear is continuously growing. Aiding the contralateral ear with a hearing aid has been shown to provide substantial benefit regarding speech intelligibility in quiet and in noise, sound quality, localization ability and listening effort. In this study, a dedicated hearing aid with the accompanying fitting prescription, tailored to the needs of bimodal listeners was evaluated in nine bimodal CI users. Speech intelligibility scores in noise revealed on-par performance of the dedicated bimodal fitting compared to the clinical standard prescription. 78% of the bimodal CI users preferred the dedicated bimodal fitting over the clinical standard. The minimal subject-specific finetuning effort required during the dedicated bimodal fitting process emphasizes the clinical efficiency.
对侧耳有可助听残余听力的单侧人工耳蜗(CI)使用者群体在持续增加。已证实,使用助听器辅助对侧耳在安静和嘈杂环境下的言语清晰度、声音质量、定位能力及聆听努力程度方面都能带来显著益处。在本研究中,对9名双耳CI使用者评估了一款专为双模式聆听者需求定制的专用助听器及其配套的验配处方。噪声环境下的言语清晰度得分显示,该专用双模式验配与临床标准处方的表现相当。78%的双耳CI使用者更喜欢专用双模式验配而非临床标准验配。专用双模式验配过程中所需的针对个体的微调工作量极小,凸显了其临床效率。