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• The recommendation will not have any
adverse eects on the patients health or
general well being;
• The records conrm that all necessary
considerations about the patient´s best
interests have been made If legally required,
the patient has signed a disclaimer to
conrm that the referral advice has not been
accepted and that it is an informed decision.
Clinical benet:
Hearing aid: Improvement of speech
understanding
Tinnitus feature: Tinnitus feature provides
supplementary noise stimulation which can
help defocus the user's attention from their
tinnitus.
Side eects:
Physiological side-eects of hearing aids like
tinnitus, dizziness, wax build up, too much
pressure, sweating or moisture, blisters, itching
and/or rashes, plugged or fullness and their
consequences like headache and/ or ear pain,
may be resolved or reduced by your hearing
care professional.
Conventional hearing aids have the potential
to expose patients to higher levels of sound
exposure, which might result in threshold shis
in the frequency range aected by acoustic
trauma.