Work-related noise exposure in a cohort of patients with chronic tinnitus: analysis of demographic and audiological characteristics [PDF]
, 2017 Work-related noise exposure is one of the major factors contributing to the development of adult-onset hearing loss and tinnitus. The aim of this study was to analyze, in patients with chronic tinnitus and long-term occupational noise exposure, (A ...
ALTISSIMI, Giancarlo +9 more
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Requirements for cabin crew medical examinations and assessments [PDF]
, 2015 The aim of the current study is to review current regulations relatively to medical requirements necessary to achieve suitability to fly of the cabin crew. There are three classes of flight crew medical standards and licensing. A first class medical
Di Folco, Francesco +3 more
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Accuracy and Pitfalls in the Smartphone-Based Audiometry Examination [PDF]
Iranian Journal of OtorhinolaryngologyIntroduction: Approximately 466 million people suffer from hearing loss worldwide, with Indonesia ranking fourth in Southeast Asia. However, conventional pure-tone audiometry is not yet available in many areas because of its high cost. Numerous available
Ramtry Berampu +4 more
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Development of Sound Field Audiometry System for Small Audiometric Booths and Comparison of Its Equivalence With Traditional System [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Otorhinolaryngology, 2020 Objectives Sound field (SF) audiometry tests are usually conducted in audiometric booths measuring greater than 2×2 m in size. However, most private ENT clinics carry about 1×1-m-sized audiometric booths, making SF audiometry testing difficult to perform.
Eun Kyung Jung +4 more
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Child-Robot Interaction Studies During COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic affected our lives deeply, just like everyone else, the children also suffered from the restrictions due to COVID-19 affecting their education and social interactions with others, being restricted from play areas and schools for a long time.
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DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION IN A GROUP OF INDUSTRY WORKERS, OF AN APPLICATION FOR AUDIOMETRIC SCREENING: A SOLUTION FOR SOCIAL DISTANCE DURING COVID-19 EMERGENCY [PDF]
Euromediterranean Biomedical Journal, 2020 In the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic, companies and institutions all over the world are trying to find the best ways to reorganize their activity, minimizing the contagion risk among their employees, so as to protect their health and prevent ...
Emanuele Cannizzaro
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Intralabyrinthine Vestibular Schwannoma Responsive to Intratympanic Gentamicin Treatment [PDF]
, 2017 Intralabyrinthine schwannoma (ILS) is a rare benign tumor that affects the ends of cochlear and vestibular nerves. In a majority of the cases, it occurs with unilateral progressive sensorineural hearing loss.
Barbara, Maurizio +6 more
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Do uHear? Validation of uHear App for Preliminary Screening of Hearing Ability in Soundscape Studies [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Studies involving soundscape perception often exclude participants with hearing loss to prevent impaired perception from affecting experimental results. Participants are typically screened with pure tone audiometry, the "gold standard" for identifying and quantifying hearing loss at specific frequencies, and excluded if a study-dependent threshold is ...
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Classification of audiograms in the prevention of noise-induced hearing loss: A clinical perspective
South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2020 Background: Noise induced hearing loss (NIHL) is a major contributor to disabling hearing loss. Engineering controls are superior to hearing protection devices (HPDs) in prevention of occupational noise induced hearing loss (ONIHL), although the latter ...
Zumbi Musiba
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Simultaneous Contralateral Vestibular Schwannoma and Middle Ear Paraganglioma Tumor [PDF]
, 2017 To the best of our knowledge, only 2 cases of a simultaneous contralateral vestibular schwannoma (VS) and middle ear paraganglioma (MEP) have previously been reported in literature.
Barbara, M +6 more
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