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A comprehensive study of clinical efficacy in cochlear implant surgery among children and adults

Abstract

Background and Objective: Hearing loss, often known as hearing impairment, is the inability to hear in part or completely. Hearing loss affects around one in every eight persons globally. For this form of hearing loss, cochlear implants (CI) may be a feasible option to hearing aids. The current study's major goal was to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the clinical efficacy of CI surgery in pediatric and adult patients.

Methods: The current investigation was conducted as a systematic review in accordance with the PRISMA standards. We conducted a comprehensive search of the PubMed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Google Scholar databases for relevant literature on the clinical efficacy of CI surgery using the proper key phrases (MeSH). The following information was retrieved from the selected articles: author's name, journal name, research design, sample size and age, devices, findings, and outcomes.

Results: This review contained seventy-three papers that fulfilled the inclusion criteria. There were 19 papers on unilateral CI surgery in adults, 17 on bilateral (sequential-simultaneous) CI surgery in adults, 9 on unilateral CI surgery in children, and 28 on bilateral (sequential-simultaneous) CI surgery in children. The involving unilateral CI in adults shown a considerable increase in perceptual ability. In comparison to unilateral CI, bilateral CI provides advantages in sound localisation and hearing in calm and condition. Age is not a decisive element in patients' performance of post-CI outcomes.

Conclusion: For the vast majority of patients with mild to severe hearing loss, CI is a helpful assistance in communication and speech perception. To create stronger evidence, more research with big databases, patient registries with long-term follow-up data, higher-quality reporting, and longer length are required.

Keywords: Clinical efficacy, cochlea nerve, meningitis, surgical technique, hearing in noise, progressive hearing loss

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