Occupational Hearing Loss

Cover
	Half Title
Title Page
	Copyright Page
Dedication
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 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 plaintiff 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