![]() ![]() 1ĪudiologyOnline: What did recipients say about the Kanso 2 Sound Processor? ![]() Natasha McDougald: We had a wide range of patients participating, from small children ranging to adults over 80 years old! 78% of our participants were upgrading to the Kanso 2 Sound Processor, while 22% were new cochlear implant activations – learning how to hear with their device. A cohort containing both newly activated patients hearing with a cochlear implant for the first time and veteran recipients upgrading allowed us the understanding how this unique processor fits in their daily lives.ĪudiologyOnline: What were the demographics of the patients who participated? ![]() With 85 patients being fit with the Kanso 2 Sound Processor globally, we were able to collect valuable insights into how they wore their device, daily accessory usage and clinical fitting trends. With that in mind, we completed a large-scale controlled market release of the Kanso 2 Sound Processor to better understand how our patients would use it, and how our professionals would fit it. Natasha McDougald: At Cochlear, innovation is directly inspired by people: our recipients who use hearing to connect to life and our professionals who help them achieve this goal. + Finally, this approval brought our second generation off-the-ear (OTE) sound processor to the market, the Cochlear™ Nucleus® Kanso® 2 Sound Processor.ĪudiologyOnline: After approval, what were the next steps to commercializing the Kanso 2 Sound Processor? Our Nucleus® 7 Sound Processor was extended to our very first implant recipients with the Nucleus 22 implant – allowing them for the first time to directly stream music, entertainment and ZOOM calls from their smartphone. It also introduced our next generation fitting software, Cochlear™ Custom Sound® Pro, designed for clinicians by clinicians, which brings the patient to the center of the fitting process. I’m now hooked on watching Lucifer and that comes through just fine for me.Natasha McDougald: This past July, Cochlear received a suite of approvals from the FDA encompassing the entire Cochlear™ Nucleus® Implant system – from inside to out! This included a new electrode in the Nucleus® Electrode portfolio, the Slim 20 (CI624), optimized for insertion to 20 mm. An additional thing to carry, but not an issue.Īs far as the TV, I hear well enough with my HA to listen without an additional device. My resolution to that is to control the Cochlear SP with the remote control. If other than a Phonak or ReSound aid, I can only have one app or the other. There is also the type of BT the aids use if the aid uses old fashioned BT like Phonak does, I can have both the Phonak and Cochlear app. I also don’t want an audiologist pushing me to the aid that pairs with my SP. The point is that I want the best sound that gives me the best hearing understanding in my good ear whether it pairs with my SP or not. Maybe turning the higher pitched frequency up in the ReSound is an idea. So why do I need to stream a call to both ears? It doesn’t make a difference which HA I use with my SP.Īs far as phone calls for example, unless you use a speaker, a person that hears without the use of hearing devices is going to hear the call in one ear, not both. That said, when I wear my KS9 and my sound processor, I don’t notice a difference between it and when I wear my ReSound Quattro 9. When I go out, I always wear it because it provides a better all around sound. With a hearing aid, my hearing is still well enough in my “good” ear that I don’t always need to wear my sound processor around the house. Thanks all! I had no idea that you could use devices like Roger bluetooth to “pair,” is that the right terminology to a N7. I want the best hearing experience for myself. I know there are others here that use a different aid that the one that can pair with their sound processor and do find no issue with two different devices. I feel like I’m being pushed toward a hearing aid that might not be right for me. She’s telling me I would get more sound having the ReSound paired with the Cochlear sound processor. She is pushing me toward the newest ReSound hearing aid in my non-implanted ear. I mentioned this to my audiologist last week. I might try Oticon Opn2 were my first HA’s before I had sudden hearing loss, but even then, Phonak’s were better. I will try a ReSound and the new Phonak Lumify. As others have said that have used both ReSound and a Phonak aid, the ReSound is more muffled and less sound. They don’t pair togther, but that’s not an issue. I get more sound out of the KS9 there is more sound, carity, I hear better with this combination. My preference currently is my KS9 with my implant. Next January, I will be eligible for a new hearing aid. I have the ReSound Quattro 9 that pairs with them. ![]()
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