Learning from reimplantation
27 February 2020
| Kerri Millward
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Otology
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Cochlear implant, Device failure, Explantation, Hard failure, Re-implantation, Revision cochlear implant, Soft failure
The Irish implant centre in Dublin undertook a retrospective study of their reimplantation cases to look at what lessons could be learnt. Device failures fall into two classes: hard and soft failures. Hard failures are implant malfunction or altered performance....
