General Warnings - oticon CROS Instructions For Use Manual

General warnings

For your personal safety and to ensure
correct usage, you should familiarize
yourself fully with the following general
warnings before using your transmitter.
Please note that the transmitter will not
restore normal hearing and will not prevent
or improve a hearing impairment resulting
from organic conditions. Furthermore, note
that in most cases, infrequent use of the
transmitter does not permit a user to attain
its full benefits.
Consult your hearing care professional if
you experience unexpected operations or
events with your transmitter.
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Choking hazards & risk of swallowing
batteries and other small parts
The transmitter, its parts and the battery
should be kept out of reach of children and
anyone who might swallow these items or
otherwise cause injury to themselves.
Batteries have occasionally been mistaken
for pills. Therefore, check your medicine
carefully before swallowing any pills.
Most hearing aids can be supplied with
a tamper-resistant battery drawer upon
request. This is strongly recommended
for infants, small children, and people with
learning difficulties.
If a battery is swallowed, see a doctor
immediately and contact the National
Poison Center at 1-800-222-1222 or
National Battery Ingestion Hotline at
1-800-498-8666.
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Battery use
Always use batteries recommended by
your hearing care professional. Low quality
batteries may leak and cause bodily harm.
Never attempt to recharge your batteries,
and never dispose of batteries by burning
them. There is a risk that the batteries will
explode.
Dysfunction
Be aware of the possibility that your trans-
mitter may stop working without notice.
Keep this in mind when you depend on
warning sounds (e.g. when you are in traf-
fic). The transmitter may stop functioning,
for instance if the batteries have expired.
Active implants
The transmitter has been thoroughly
tested and characterised for human health
according to international standards for
human exposure (Specific Absorption Ratio
- SAR), induced electromagnetic power and
voltages into the human body.
The exposure values are well below
international accepted safety limits for
SAR, induced electromagnetic power and
voltages into the human body defined in
the standards for human health and coex-
istence with active medical implants, such
as pacemakers and heart defibrillators.
If you have an active brain implant, please
contact the manufacturer of your implanta-
ble device for information about the risk of
disturbance.
The MultiTool which has a built-in magnet
should be kept at least 12 inches away
from the implant, e.g. do not carry it in your
breast pocket.
In general, please follow the guidelines
recommended by the manufacturers of
implantable defibrillators and pacemakers
on use with magnets.
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