Multicenter clinical trial of the Nucleus Hybrid S8 cochlear implant: Final outcomes

摘要

Objectives/HypothesisThe concept of expanding electrical speech processing to those with more residual acoustic hearing with a less-invasive shorter cochlear implant (CI) has been ongoing since 1999. A multicenter study of the Nucleus Hybrid S8 CI took place between 2002 and 2011. This report describes the final outcomes of this clinical trial.