This early feasibility study aims to collect pilot data on impedance measurements in real-world environments and to collect real-world and difficult listening situations and the factors impacting this, reflecting situations the subjects encounter during their daily life outside of the clinic. Improving the monitoring of both aspects may lead to improvements in monitoring and personalising the fitting to optimise hearing outcomes for persons with a cochlear implant.
This is a feasibility, prospective, multi-country, multi-centre, cross-sectional interventional clinical investigation in adults with a CE labelled cochlear implant. No Randomisation nor blinding to avoid bias is applicable in this study since there is no comparator. Subjects will attend two scheduled study visits over a two-month study period. At and in between study visits, subjects will undergo hearing assessments and safety monitoring. The subjects will perform daily impedance test tasks and complete a questionnaire in order to obtain the first primary endpoint, i.e. characterization of Daily Impedance Fluctuations. Furthermore, the subjects will do EMA tasks to obtain the secondary objectives to capture daily-life, real-world listening environments and challenging listening environments.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
51
Characterisation of impedance and real-world monitoring of hearing difficulty in range of listening environments.
Cochlear Macquarie
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
HEARnet
Carlton, Victoria, Australia
ENT Department, Sint-Augutinus Antwerp
Wilrijk, Antwerp, Belgium
Cochlear Bone Anchored Solutions AB (CBAS)
Mölnlycke, Västergötland, Sweden
Impedance Measurements
Median of the standard deviation in total electrode impedance (measured in kOhm, averaged across 22 electrode contacts) between days for 8 weeks.
Time frame: 8 Weeks
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