Sennheiser ADC1 - Important Safety Information

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Important safety information
Please read the relevant safety information and
limitations-of-use information on the following
pages before using your hearing aids.
This hearing aid is designed and intended for
perceived mild to moderate hearing loss in adults.
If you experience any of the following, you may
have this kind of hearing loss:
• You have trouble hearing speech in noisy places
• You find it hard to follow speech in groups
• You have trouble hearing on the phone
• Listening makes you tired
• You need to turn up the volume on the TV or
radio, and other people complain it's too loud
Contraindications:
General clinical contraindications for the use of
hearing aids are:
• Hearing loss is not in the fitting range of the
hearing aid (i.e. gain, frequency response)
• Acute tinnitus
• Deformity of the ear (i.e. closed ear canal;
absence of the auricle)
• Neural hearing loss (retro-cochlear pathologies
such as absent/non-viable auditory nerve)
The primary criteria for the referral of a patient
for a medical or other specialist opinion and / or
treatment are as follows:
• Visible congenital or traumatic deformity of the
ear;
• History of active drainage from the ear in the
previous  days;
• History of sudden or rapidly progressive hearing
loss in one or both ears within the previous 
days
• Acute or chronic dizziness;
• Audiometric air-bone gap equal to or greater
than  dB at  Hz,  Hz and  Hz;