Robert Thayer Sataloff, Pamela C. Roehm

Occupational Hearing Loss, Fourth Edition (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Occupational Hearing Loss, 4th edition addresses the hazards of occupational noise exposure, causes of hearing loss, testing of hearing, and more.It emphasizes on medical and societal factors in audiometry, evoked response testing, conductive and sensorineural hearing loss and mixed, central, and functional hearing loss.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040118757
• Artikelnr.: 72250476

Autorenporträt

Robert Thayer Sataloff is a professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery at Drexel University College of Medicine. He is a member of the editorial panel for the American Medical Association's "Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment".He is also adjunct professor in the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University, adjunct professor at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and is on the faculty of the Academy of Vocal Arts. Dr. Sataloff is chairman of the Boards of Directors of the Voice Foundation and of the American Institute for Voice and Ear Research.

Pamela Roehm is Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery at Drexel University College of Medicine, USA. She is also Program Director for St Luke's University Otolaryngology Program.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Fourth Edition
Authors
Contributors
1. Occupational Hearing Loss: An Overview
2. The Physics of Sound
3. The Nature of Hearing Loss
4. The Otologic History and Physical Examination
5. Classification and Measurement of Hearing Loss
6. The Audiogram
7. Special Hearing Tests
8. Auditory-Evoked Phenomena: Theory and Clinical Applications
9. Conductive Hearing Loss
10. Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Diagnostic Criteria
11. Noise Damage and Hidden Hearing Loss: Cochlear Synaptopathy in Animals
and Humans
12. Regenerative Therapy for Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Current Research
Implications for Future Treatment
13. Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss
14. Mixed, Central, and Functional Hearing Loss
15. Systemic Causes of Hearing Loss
16. A Brief History of Occupational Hearing Loss: A Personal Perspective
17. Diagnosing Occupational Hearing Loss
18. Hearing Loss: Handicap and Rehabilitation
19. Hearing Protection Devices
20. Tinnitus
21. Dizziness
22. Facial Paralysis
23. Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Temporal Bone
24. Sarcomas of the Temporal Bone
25. Hearing in Dogs
26. Implications of Nutraceutical Modulation of Glutathione with Cystine
and Cysteine in General Health and Otology
27. Tables Summarizing Differential Diagnosis
28. Noise Measurement
29. Noise Control
30. Noise Criteria Regarding Risk and Prevention of Hearing Injury in
Industry
31. Hearing Loss and Other Otolaryngologic Complications of Scuba Diving
32. Hearing Conservation Underwater
33. Hearing Loss in Musicians
34. Hearing Conservation in Industry
35. Establishing a Hearing Conservation Program
36. Occupational Hearing Loss: Legislation and Compensation
37. OSHA Noise Regulation
38. Formulae Differences in State and Federal Hearing Loss Compensation
39. Occupational Hearing Loss in the Railroad Industry
40. The United States: The Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act
41. Occupational Hearing Loss in Canada
42. Occupational Hearing Loss in the United Kingdom
43. Evaluating Occupational Hearing Loss: The Value of the AMA's Guides
to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment
44. Recorded Simulation of Hearing Loss
45. A Plaintiffs' Attorney's Perspective on Occupational Hearing Loss
46. Workers' Compensation: Presenting Medical Evidence in Hearing Loss
Cases
Appendix I: Anatomy of the Ear
Appendix II: Otopathology
Appendix III: Otosclerosis, Paget's Disease, and Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Involving the Ear
Appendix IV: Neurofibromatosis
Appendix V: Hearing Conservation Procedures
Appendix VI: Hearing Conservation Program Procedures and Reports
Index