Comparison of different mobile telephones in Combi40+ users.
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2006-06-28
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CONCLUSION Telephone usage is a difficult challenge for cochlear implanted patients A significant number of cochlear implanted patients are able to carry on a land line or mobile telephone conversation The telephone model may be a critical factor for telephone performance OBJECTIVES The goals of this study were to evaluate speech discrimination through land line and mobile telephones in Combi40 users and to compare different mobile telephone models to find out which could be more advisable for them PATIENTS AND METHODS Eighteen Combi40 implantees were tested with CID sentences and bisyllabic words presented through land line and mobile telephones in both quiet and noisy environments RESULTS Mean scores for telephonic speech discrimination were over 85 for CID sentences and 28 59 for bisyllabic words The Siemens M55 was superior to the other mobile telephones tested