A multimodal fitting approach for the treatment of hearing loss

Abstract

We attempted a multimodal fitting approach on a 22-year-old female patient with profound sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in the right ear and moderate-to-profound SNHL in the left ear since she was a child (Prelingual). She has been wearing a cochlear implant on her right ear with the Kanso one sound processor (Nucleus® Sound Processor from Cochlear Ltd) and a Resound behind the ear (BTE) hearing aid on her left ear (Bimodal fitting). We used a combination of electrical-acoustic stimulation plus (EAS-P), vibration-acoustic stimulation (VAS), and vibration-electrical stimulation (VES) to investigate whether the patient’s speech recognition in a noisy environment improves with our multimodal approach compared to the bimodal fitting approach. We used MedRx Audiometer for our evaluations and the calibration was done before our assessments.