Question
What can my patients with Advanced Bionics cochlear implants expect when upgrading to the new ClearVoice processing strategy? Will we have to work through an adjustment period?
Answer
ClearVoice™* is available to any adult Advanced Bionics recipient who has a CII or HiRes 90K™ cochlear implant and uses a Harmony™ or Neptune™ sound processor. They can upgrade simply by contacting their programming audiologist and making an appointment to have a fitting session.
What we learned from the ClearVoice investigational device exemption, as well as other studies, is that the benefit recipients receive is immediate. One-hundred percent of patients in our trials showed benefit with ClearVoice, and 93 percent of the recipients in the clinical study said they would use ClearVoice for their all-day, everyday program.
An acclimatization period is typically the case for many new sound processing strategies that are developed and brought into the market, but because ClearVoice is built on the HiRes Fidelity 120™* technology, the vast majority of the recipients experience an enhancement to a sound processing strategy that they are already familiar with. Since ClearVoice doesn’t detract from it in any way, most recipients are able to have a very seamless crossover.
*Not approved for pediatric use in the United States.
To learn more about Advanced Bionics, please visit AdvancedBionics.com or the Advanced Bionics Expo Page on AudiologyOnline.
