First results of chronic electrical stimulation with a round-window electrode in totally deaf patients

摘要: A few patients who had become totally deaf in adulthood were chronically implanted with an electrode on the round window. Elicitable auditory sensations limited but proved beneficial enough for a small portable stimulator to be suggested everyday use. Over period of several months subjects monitored times days at laboratory and trained make better use their prosthesis. Such device appears safe have attached its One subject suffering from tinnitus was also given another delivering positive direct current which suppresses tinnitus.