Occupational Hearing Loss, Fourth Edition - Pamela C. Roehm

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Auteur(s) : Pamela C. Roehm - Robert Thayer Sataloff

Editeur : Taylor & Francis Ltd

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/10/2024

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 890

Expédition : 1680

Dimensions : 18.0 x 25.4 x 4.8

ISBN : 1032566973

Résumé :

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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Biographie:

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

Sommaire:

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.