Scientific article
Case report
English

Scuba diving with cochlear implants

Published inAnnals of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology, vol. 112, no. 5, p. 425-427
Publication date2003
Abstract

We report on a patient with bilateral cochlear implants (a Med-El Combi40 and a Med-El Combi40+), as well as considerable experience in scuba diving with both of his implants. After having been exposed to 68 and 89 dives, respectively, in depths of up to 43 m, both cochlear implants are in working order and the patient continues to receive excellent speech recognition scores with both cochlear implant systems. The presented data show that scuba diving after cochlear implantation is possible over a considerable number of dives without any major negative impact on the implants.

Keywords
  • Bilateral cochlear implantation
  • Cochlear implant
  • Diving
  • Hyperbaric exposure
Affiliation entities Not a UNIGE publication
Citation (ISO format)
KOMPIS, Martin et al. Scuba diving with cochlear implants. In: Annals of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology, 2003, vol. 112, n° 5, p. 425–427. doi: 10.1177/000348940311200507
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