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Intended User
Hearing aid: Intended for:
• People with hearing loss
• Caregivers of the person with hearing loss
• Hearing care professional responsible for
adjusting the hearing aid
Charging accessories: Intended for people with
hearing loss using the compatible rechargeable
hearing aids, their caregivers and hearing care
professional.
Intended medical indication
Hearing aid: Presence of hearing loss:
• Unilateral or bilateral
• Hearing loss type: conductive,
sensorineural or mixed
• Grades of hearing loss:
- Mild
- Moderate
- Moderately severe
Clinical indication for the use of Tinnitus
feature is: Presence of chronic tinnitus
(>3 months, aer occurrence) in addition to the
presence of hearing loss
Charging accessories: Please note, indications
are not derived from the charging accessories,
but from the compatible hearing aids.
Medical contraindications
Hearing aid: Medical contraindications for the
use of hearing aids are:
• Deformity of the ear (i.e. closed ear canal;
absence of the auricle)
• Neural hearing loss (i.e. retro-cochlear
pathologies such as absent/ non-viable
auditory nerve)
• Evidence of active or chronic middle or
outer ear pathology, chronic drainage
or discharge, evidence of chronic
inflammation