Cochlear Nordic SSD workshop

This online workshop is a follow-up to the Cochlear Nordic SSD Symposium held in Stockholm in December 2024. One of the main conclusions from the symposium was that when considering CI in SSD, it is imperative to choose the right patients. But who exactly are the right patients? The aim of this workshop is to work together towards an answer.

Date: 8th May 2025

Time: 

13:00-15:00 GMT (Iceland)
14:00-16:00 CEST (Sweden, Norway, Denmark)
15:00-17:00 EEST (Finland)

This workshop will be held via Microsoft Teams.

The target audience is professionals involved in CI candidacy and treatment.

Program

The program consists of short presentations on recent progress in local clinical approaches, case studies, and work in groups aiming to produce a clinical support tool to help SSD candidate assessments. The clinical tool aims to document the key aspects to consider with this patient group, versus so-called traditional CI candidates: 

• Candidate selection & pre-operative evaluation 
• Pre-operative counselling 
• Post-operative evaluation and counselling

14:00 Welcome - Lotta Vedholm, Cochlear Nordic 

14:03 Introduction - Jakob Skalleberg, Oslo University Hospital, Norway 

14:10 Update on CI indications in Norway - Jakob Skalleberg, Oslo University Hospital, Norway 

14:20 Quality of life and satisfaction with CI in adult SSD patients - Petrus Miettinen, Kuopio University Hospital, Finland 

14:30 Karolinska’s approach to SSD patients - Anna Granath, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden 

14:40 Pediatric SSD health economics evidence  - Katerina Šupíková, University of Gothenburg 

14:50 Briefing to the groups work - Hlíf Sigurgeirsdóttir Liljenberg, Cochlear Nordic 

15:00 Breakout groups: 
• Candidate selection & pre-operative evaluation 
• Pre-operative counselling 
• Post-operative evaluation and counselling

15:35 Report back to the main group - Hlíf Sigurgeirsdóttir Liljenberg, Cochlear Nordic 

15:50 Summary and conclusions - Jakob Skalleberg, Oslo University Hospital, Norway 

15:58 Close of the meeting - Lotta Vedholm, Cochlear Nordic

We look forward to discussing with you in May.

Kind Regards, 

Cochlear Nordic