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. We found no evidence to support the widely-held practice of administering intravenous steroids in the perioperative period, in an attempt to preserve residual hearing. This paper demonstrates that high-dose local steroid injection at surgery was not effective in preventing a loss of residual hearing, improving speech perception, or lowering electrode impedances. The findings were contrary to the experimental literature, and emerging clinical evidence that steroid elution from implant electrodes influences cochlear biology in huma