Percutaneous Cochlear Implantation: Implementation of Technique

Exclusion Criteria

• •Patients with co-morbidities so severe that the potential additional operating room time is deemed to be too significant of an operative risk. This assessment is made by the local institutions pre-operative work-up.
• •History of allergic reaction/intolerance of local anesthesia and/or epinephrine.
• •History of allergic reaction to titanium.
• •Patients with severe anatomical abnormality of the temporal bone.
• •Patients with severe chronic ear disease for whom traditional mastoidectomy might offer benefit.
• •Females who are pregnant.