title: A framework for good practice: managing failures in a cochlear implant service.
abstract: Cochlear implants can provide the recipient and their family with wonderful outcomes in terms of their improved access to sound and to speech. However the experience of a cochlear implant failing is distressing for all concerned. Clinicians endeavour to ensure that the process of confirming the failure, re-implantation and subsequent rehabilitation is as smooth as possible. In order to benefit from each others experience, a working party of cochlear implant centre coordinators and representatives from the Ear Foundation met on a number of occasions to draw up a protocol which could be used widely throughout the British Cochlear Implant Group. The protocol indicates quality standards of clinical care to be used in the event of device failure.
authors.affiliation: South of England Cochlear Implant Centre, Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, Southampton University, Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Brinton
mesh_terms: D002985:Clinical Protocols; D019929:Cochlear Implantation; D004868:Equipment Failure; D006801:Humans; D011216:Practice Management, Medical; D011584:Psychology; D012086:Reoperation / Q000379:methods