Can electrophysiological measures predict hearing thresholds with coch

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Can electrophysiological measures predict hearing thresholds with cochlear implants?

• IRAS ID

  154566

• Contact name

  Steven Bell

• Research summary

  The study aimed to find out if the response of the brain to sound (called auditory evoked responses) could help the research team to tell if patients with Cochlear Implants could hear well. Cochlear implants were given to adults and children who were profoundly deaf. After they had an implant, the study team wanted to know how well they could hear in order that they could adjust the settings in the implant to give them the best hearing possible. In some patients, for example, very young children, hearing thresholds could be hard to measure accurately as they cannot co-operate with hearing tests. The study team were trying to find out if the brain response to sound could accurately predict hearing thresholds with a cochlear implant as this could be used in clinic to help set up cochlear implants for such difficult to test patients.

• REC name

  North of Scotland Research Ethics Committee 2

• REC reference

  14/NS/0088

• Date of REC Opinion

  23 May 2014

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion