Nandini is an audiologist—with hearing loss. She recently took the leap and got a cochlear implant. Now she can speak from personal experience about what hearing with a MED-EL cochlear implant is like. Read on to learn what a huge difference anatomy-based fitting can make.

MED-EL has focused decades of research on residual hearing preservation. While remaining hearing is often limited to specific frequency ranges, preserving residual hearing can improve hearing outcomes with a cochlear implant.

The latest MAESTRO cochlear implant fitting software comes with some practical new features, including color-coded IFT heat maps. IFT results are measured in seconds, and you can see the impedance status intuitively at a single glance.

A new user interface, fully automatic 3D reconstruction and measurement of inner ear structures, simultaneous preoperative visualizations of various electrode arrays in the cochlea, support for placement planning of cochlear and bone conduction implants, and extensive postoperative analysis tools—those are just a few of the innovative features in the newest version of OTOPLAN. This software solution makes it possible to individualize hearing implant surgery—from planning the operation to the audiological fitting—like never before.

Understanding music is a complex process. MED-EL's cochlear implant technology makes it possible for users to perceive and appreciate music.

Since 2006, each channel or pair of electrodes in MED-EL’s cochlear implants has had its own current source. These 12 channels with independent current sources allow each electrode pair to stimulate the cochlea with more flexibility. For instance, several different electrode pairs can stimulate different places in the cochlea at precisely the same time, which is often referred to as simultaneous or parallel stimulation.