CI Success Rate Stats

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Please watch this video, very important. That is one of the reasons why I don't like CI.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yCm7rokDao&feature=share]YouTube - "FDA: Shocking Results on Cochlear Implant Stats"[/ame]
 
You posted twice lol. Not mean to be rude. I saw two same threads you posted. Hey, your choice to like or not like Cochlear Implant. I like Cochlear Implant because it help me. Everyone has different views on Cochlear Implant.
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Good video blog! Yes, that is true they have low rate of success because Cochlear Implant doesn't work for everyone. it works for me then I must be lucky lol.
 
If you click through to the language that drew her attention on Google "... cochlea has a low success rate with these people...", you would see that in context, it is not a damning report that someone is trying hide, as she suggests. It is a note that some patients are not eligible for CIs because it is not successful unless there's a healthy nerve. See how she has snipped the bold part from wikipedia, without the surrounding context:

"There are strict protocols in choosing candidates to avoid risks and disadvantages. A battery of tests is performed to make the decision of candidacy easier. For example, some patients suffer from deafness medial to the cochlea - typically acoustic neuromas. Implantation into the cochlea has a low success rate with these people, as the artificial signal does not have a healthy nerve to travel along.
With careful selection of candidates, the risks of implantation are minimized."
 
GrendelQ said:
If you click through to the language that drew her attention on Google "... cochlea has a low success rate with these people...", you would see that in context, it is not a damning report that someone is trying hide, as she suggests. It is a note that some patients are not eligible for CIs because it is not successful unless there's a healthy nerve. See how she has snipped the bold part from wikipedia, without the surrounding context:

"There are strict protocols in choosing candidates to avoid risks and disadvantages. A battery of tests is performed to make the decision of candidacy easier. For example, some patients suffer from deafness medial to the cochlea - typically acoustic neuromas. Implantation into the cochlea has a low success rate with these people, as the artificial signal does not have a healthy nerve to travel along.
With careful selection of candidates, the risks of implantation are minimized."
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I should have a check before I posted. But still, like I said Cochlear Implant doesn't work for everyone. Good find!
 
If you click through to the language that drew her attention on Google "... cochlea has a low success rate with these people...", you would see that in context, it is not a damning report that someone is trying hide, as she suggests. It is a note that some patients are not eligible for CIs because it is not successful unless there's a healthy nerve. See how she has snipped the bold part from wikipedia, without the surrounding context:

"There are strict protocols in choosing candidates to avoid risks and disadvantages. A battery of tests is performed to make the decision of candidacy easier. For example, some patients suffer from deafness medial to the cochlea - typically acoustic neuromas. Implantation into the cochlea has a low success rate with these people, as the artificial signal does not have a healthy nerve to travel along.
With careful selection of candidates, the risks of implantation are minimized."
 
The Sunnybrook/Toronto experience over 19 Years: rejection rate is 60% of referred patients to them-Cochlear Implantation. Probably similar in other centers. In the same time frame they operated on 850 patients- I was one of them.

This information from a Implant patients meeting there- last year.

Implanted-Sunnybrook-Advanced Bionics-Harmony activated Aug/07
 
CI users are a minority in the deaf community. Don't see that changing anytime in the near future.
 
jillio said:
CI users are a minority in the deaf community. Don't see that changing anytime in the near future.
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No. As drphil noted, 60 percent of those who ask for them don't qualify. And not that many people ask for one.
 
Some research.... not going beyond the google search listing...
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Cochlear implant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"low success rate"

"There are strict protocols in choosing candidates to avoid risks and disadvantages. A battery of tests is performed to make the decision of candidacy easier. For example, some patients suffer from deafness medial to the cochlea - typically vestibular schwannomas. Implantation into the cochlea has a low success rate with these people, as the artificial signal does not have a healthy nerve to travel along. "
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vestibular schwannomas:
A vestibular schwannoma (also known as acoustic neuroma, acoustic neurinoma, or acoustic neurilemoma) is a benign, usually slow-growing tumor that develops from the balance and hearing nerves supplying the inner ear.
 
For someone with a MA and knowledge in research techniques she has done a very poor job of taking a couple words out of context and manupulating them....

I would be happy to put her in contact with a couple of reseachers at Cochlear Americas directly. they have lots of research and its ongoing but most is published in academic and trade publications and often not found on google searches.
 
Updating #6, the number of referred patients was 3,000 with 950 patients implanted- of which 18 persons didn't benefit at all. Info at November 2011 meeting.
 
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