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Guidelines for Best Practice in the Audiological Management of Adults Using Bimodal Hearing Configurations

Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: Clinics are treating a growing number of patients with greater amounts of residual hearing. These patients often benefit from a bimodal hearing configuration in which acoustic input from a hearing aid on 1 ear is combined with electrical stimulation from a cochlear implant on the other ear. The current guidelines aim to review the literature and provide best practice recommendations for the evaluation and treatment of individuals with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss who may benefit from bimodal hearing configurations. Specifically, the guidelines review: benefits of bimodal listening, preoperative and postoperative cochlear implant evaluation and programming, bimodal hearing aid fitting, contralateral routing of signal considerations, bimodal treatment for tinnitus, and aural rehabilitation recommendations.
DOI: 10.1097/ono.0000000000000011
Authors: Jourdan T. Holder, Meredith A. Holcomb, Hillary Snapp, Robert F. Labadie, Jantien Vroegop, Christine Rocca, Mohamed Salah Elgandy, Camille Dunn, René H. Gifford
Institutions: Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, University of Miami, Medical University of South Carolina, Erasmus MC, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, University of Iowa
Language: English
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4289926429
FWCI: 2.399
Cites: 294
Cited by: 25
Related to: 10