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Occupational Hearing Loss, Fourth Edition
About this book
Now in its fourth edition, Occupational Hearing Loss delivers a complete overview of the hazards of occupational noise exposure, causes of hearing loss, testing of hearing, criteria to distinguish occupational hearing loss, and more. The book emphasizes medical and societal factors in its coverage of topics such as audiometry and who should do it, evoked response testing, and conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, as well as mixed, central, and functional hearing loss.
Brought together by experienced practitioners and written by experts with depth and experience in the field, this book is written clearly in language accessible to non-medical personnel. No other book available has the breadth, practical detail, or comprehensive scope. A unique compendium of information about specific problems of occupational hearing loss and hearing conservation, the book is both a balanced reference and an easy-to-use guide to protecting the hearing of industrial workers.
This title is an ideal read for any student or professional occupational physician, audiologist, health and safety engineer, industrial hygienist, and otolaryngologist.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- 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 therapies 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 the 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 Formula differences in state and federal hearing loss compensation
- 39 Occupational hearing loss in the railroad industry
- 40 The United States: The Longshore and Harbor Workersâ 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 AMAâs Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment
- 44 Recorded simulation of hearing loss
- 45 A plaintiff attorneyâs perspective on occupational hearing loss
- 46 Workersâ compensation: Presenting medical evidence in hearing loss cases
- Appendix I: Anatomy of the ear
- Appendix II: Otopathology
- Appendix III: Otosclerosis, Pagetâs disease, and osteogenesis imperfecta involving the ear
- Appendix IV: Neurofibromatosis
- Appendix V: Hearing conservation procedures
- Appendix VI: Hearing conservation program procedures and reports
- Index