NCT01620385

Cochlear Implant PDA Based Research Platform

Multi Center Clinical Study to Assess the Safety of the UTD Cochlear Implant PDA (ciPDA) REsearch Platform

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Philip Loizou · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The primary purpose of the research is to study how individuals who wear cochlear implants process sounds in noisy environments and also whether newly designed programs can help improve the communicative ability of cochlear implant patients in noisy situations.

Detailed description

Cochlear implants have been successful in restoring partial hearing to profoundly deaf people. Despite their success, most implant patients are not able to communicate in noisy environments (e.g., in a restaurant). Communicating in noise still remains one of the biggest challenges in cochlear implants. Little is known about the factors that contribute to the poor performance of CI users in noise. In this project, we propose a series of experiments aimed at isolating these factors. We propose new programs that can be tailored for noisy situations.

Conditions

• Hearing Impaired

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	ciPDA	The ciPDA Research Platform device was designed as a research tool for cochlear implant research.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-06-01
• Primary completion: 2013-06-01
• Completion: 2013-06-01
• First posted: 2012-06-15
• Last updated: 2012-06-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States