Journal Reviews

Learning from reimplantation

27 February 2020 | | Otology | 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....