By Wade Colburn, Product Manager, Cochlear Implants at Cochlear Americas For almost 40 years, Cochlear has partnered with professionals across the globe to guide individuals with hearing loss into the world of sound. Today, the Cochlear™ Nucleus® system is the most implanted cochlear implant device with more than 379,000 implants globally1, keeping people connected to […]
Don’t wait! Consider earlier implantation for your patients
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 5% of the world’s population, 466 million people, have a disabling hearing loss. They estimate by 2050, this number is expected to rise to over 900 million people or one in every 10 people.1 As the incidence of hearing loss continues to increase, clinical evidence supports early intervention […]
Upcoming Obsolescence
The Cochlear™ Baha® 4 Sound Processor will become obsolete on March 31, 2019 in both the US and Canada. The Cochlear™ Nucleus® 5 Sound Processor will become obsolete on March 31, 2019 in the US and on June 30, 2019 in Canada. This means that beginning on the obsolescence dates, Cochlear will no longer sell […]
Cochlear’s 2019 Temporal Bone Lab and Training Courses
Cochlear offers surgeon’s Temporal Bone Lab and Training Courses in Denver, CO. This training program is intended to provide surgeons with a unique opportunity to receive training from a University‐based neurotologist on both CI and Baha implants. You will have the opportunity to receive both didactic and hands‐on learning. We look forward to this opportunity […]
New TECH Talk: Dr. Brian Kaplan lectures on making cochlear implants a standard of care
In his ACIA CI2018 lecture, Beyond the Status Quo, cochlear implant surgeon, Dr. Brian Kaplan shares his insights about the challenges facing the industry as we move toward making cochlear implants a standard of care. Dr. Brian Kaplan speaks about how the referral chain needs to improve for cochlear implants. He says we need to […]
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