Evidence-based recommendations on auditory brain stem implants for deafness caused by damage to the vestibulocochlear nerve due to tumours or surgery. This involves placing an implant in the part of the brain that processes sound signals, bypassing the nerve, to pick up electrical signals from a sound processor worn outside the ear.

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