ABSTRACT

Written in clear and accessible language, Occupational Hearing Loss provides a comprehensive overview of the hazards of occupational noise exposure, causes of hearing loss, testing of hearing, criteria to distinguish occupational hearing loss, and more. This third edition features expanded discussion of topics such as autoimmune inner ear disease and diagnosing occupational hearing loss. It includes new chapters on auditory evoked potentials, sudden sensorineural hearing loss, malignancies of the ear, otologic complications of scuba diving, and hearing in dogs. This text also contains updated and revised material on auditory processing disorders, systemic causes of hearing loss, and more.

chapter 1|2 pages

Occupational Hearing Loss: An Overview

chapter 2|16 pages

The Physics of Sound

chapter 3|10 pages

The Nature of Hearing Loss

chapter 6|20 pages

The Audiogram

chapter 7|28 pages

Special Hearing Tests

chapter 9|66 pages

Conductive Hearing Loss

chapter 11|10 pages

Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss

chapter 12|16 pages

Mixed, Central, and Functional Hearing Loss

chapter 13|54 pages

Systemic Causes of Hearing Loss

chapter 15|30 pages

Diagnosing Occupational Hearing Loss

chapter 16|22 pages

Hearing Loss: Handicap and Rehabilitation

chapter 17|20 pages

Hearing Protection Devices

chapter 18|14 pages

Tinnitus

chapter 19|28 pages

Dizziness

chapter 20|6 pages

Facial Paralysis

chapter 21|28 pages

Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Temporal Bone

chapter 22|30 pages

Sarcomas of the Temporal Bone

chapter 23|8 pages

Hearing in Dogs

chapter 24|20 pages

Tables Summarizing Differential Diagnosis

chapter 25|24 pages

Noise Measurement

chapter 26|24 pages

Noise Control

chapter 29|14 pages

Hearing Conservation Underwater

chapter 30|16 pages

Hearing Loss in Musicians

chapter 31|8 pages

Hearing Conservation in Industry

chapter 32|22 pages

Establishing a Hearing Conservation Program

chapter 34|22 pages

OSHA Noise Regulation

chapter 38|12 pages

Occupational Hearing Loss in Canada

chapter 40|6 pages

Tape Simulation of Hearing Loss