Reviewing a proposed procedure with your chosen doctor
Cochlear Implant Surgery
second opinion in Mumbai.
Medical term: Cochlear implantation
Already chosen your cochlear implant surgeon in Mumbai or Navi Mumbai to review your proposed cochlear implant surgery? When you cannot attend yourself, Redwood organises your existing records and questions, takes the case to that doctor and shares their recommendations.
You choose the doctor. We take your case to them.
Understand the procedure
What is cochlear implant surgery?
A cochlear implant uses an internal implant and external sound processor to provide electrical stimulation to the hearing nerve. It is different from a conventional hearing aid. Hearing assessment and rehabilitation needs are central to deciding suitability.
This is general procedure information. Your chosen doctor assesses what applies to you.
Procedure information: NHS: patient information
Understand the proposed plan
What the operation may involve
Your decision, your questions
Questions for your chosen doctor
Choose the questions that matter to your situation. We record them in your own words and take them to the consultation.
- What do the hearing assessments show about likely benefit from an implant?
- Which ear should be implanted, and why?
- How could surgery affect any hearing I still have in that ear?
- What activation, mapping and rehabilitation visits will be needed?
Your existing case file
Records to organise
We organise the audiograms and speech-perception test results alongside your treatment history and the written procedure recommendation. We note what you want the cochlear implant surgeon to clarify and keep the original reports available for the consultation.
Share the records you already have. This is a document checklist, not a request for new tests.
Bring together what is available
- Audiograms and speech-perception test results
- Hearing-aid trial and programming records
- CT or MRI of the ears if completed
- ENT assessment, hearing-loss timeline and previous ear-operation records
- Your written procedure recommendation, current prescriptions and allergy details
When you cannot attend yourself
How Redwood takes your case to your doctor
- Tell us whom you have chosen. Share the doctor’s name, hospital or clinic, and the decision you want reviewed.
- Prepare the case with us. We organise your existing records, treatment timeline and questions, then coordinate the appointment.
- We attend with your case. Your Care Steward takes the organised cochlear implant surgery case file to the cochlear implant surgeon you selected and puts forward your recorded questions. After the consultation, we share the doctor's recommendations and consultation documents with you.
A video call during the consultation can be arranged if the doctor allows.
We respond within 12 hours of your enquiry.