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Your Hearing Aid
Oticon Synergy / Synergy Power
Audiology Department
Purple Zone
St Helens Hospital
Marshalls Cross Rd
St Helens WA93DA
Tel: [phone] (direct line)
Email: [email protected]
St Helens and Knowsley
Teaching Hospitals
NHS Trust

Thin tube
Ear grip
(optional)
Microphone openings
Battery door
Push-button/
Volume contro
l
(optional)
Ba
ttery size: 13
Open battery
door and insert
as shown
Left and Right
ear marking
Blue = Left
Red = Right
Your ear piece:
Micro mould
Domes:
eziSepyT
Open 6 mm
Power 8 mm
Bass, single vent 10 mm
Bass, double vent 12 mm
Oticon Synergy / Synergy Power

ON
Click
OFF
Click
Instructions for use
Turning your instrument ON and OFF
Turn ON your hearing instrument by closing the
battery door completely with the battery in place.
When the battery door is closed the instrument
will start up by playing a jingle. This indicates that
the battery is working and the instrument is operating.
Turn OFF your hearing instrument by opening the battery door
slightly until a click is felt.
Batteries
Batteries last approximately 10 -14 days. You will hear a ‘BEEP’ to indicate
low battery followed by a jingle 30 mins later when the battery runs out.
To preserve the battery, make sure your hearing instrument is switched
off when you are not wearing it.
Microphones
The hearing aid has two microphones:
one facing FORWARD and one facing REAR.
Programs
Program 1 - adaptive program changes automatically
according to listening environment
Program 2 - optional
Beeps are only active if program 2 is active
One beep, when you switch to program 1
Two beeps, when you switch to program 2

Warnings
Please be aware that
the dome on the end
of the hearing aid is
detachable.
There is a potential risk
that this may become
dislodged in your ear
canal. Should you
notice that the dome
is missing please
attend the Audiology
department to have
your ear checked. You
may also attend your
local GP practice or
A&E if you believe that
the dome is in your ear
canal.
Do not attempt to
remove it yourself.
Do not remove the
dome from the thin tube
The following pictures illustrate how to
clean a hearing aid with a thin tube.
1. Detach the corda tube by pulling the tube away from
the hearing instrument.
2. Insert the cleaning tool into the top part of the tube and
feed it all the way through to the dome.
3. Carefully push the cleaning tool through the dome past the vent without removing
the dome.
Cleaning your Open Fit Hearing Aid

3. Carefully push the cleaning tool through the dome past the vent without removing
the dome.
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2
1
How to insert an Open t Hearing Aid
1. Place the hearing aid behind your ear.
2. Hold the bend of the tube between your
nger and thumb. The dome should
point towards the ear canal opening.
Gently massage the dome into your ear
canal until the tube sits ush against
the skin on the side of your head.
3. Tuck the ear grip / tail back into the
bowl of your ear. If any tube is sticking
out it is not positioned correctly, repeat
the above procedure.
Volume control (optional)
A volume control may be activated. The volume control
allows you to adjust the volume in specic listening
situations to the level you feel comfortable with.
To increase volume, shortly press the upper part of the
push-button.
To decrease volume, shortly press the lower part of the
push-button.
You hear a click when you increase or decrease the
volume.
When the hearing instrument is turned on, it starts up at a
preferred volume level. When adjusting the volume control
to the preferred level, this is indicated by a beep.
Increase
Decrease

Trouble shooting
• No sound-need to make appointment to return to audiology department
or request replacement by phone or e mail
• Ear sore- need to make appointment to return to audiology department
Appointments
Appointments must be made prior to attending hearing aid department.
Appointments can be made by
• phone on 01744 646027 (fax [phone])
• e mail [email protected]

Further notes

Audiology Department
Purple Zone
St Helens Hospital
Marshalls Cross Rd
St Helens WA93DA
Tel: [phone] (direct line)
Email: [email protected]
Useful organisations
Action on Hearing
www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk
NADP:
The National Association for
Deafened People
www.nadp.org.uk