The Development of a Tympanic Membrane Model and Probabilistic Dose-Response Risk Assessment of Rupture Because of Blast

Abstract

There is no dose-response model available for the assessment of the risk of tympanic membrane rupture (TMR), commonly known as eardrum rupture, from exposures to blast from nonlethal flashbangs, which can occur concurrently with temporary threshold shift. Therefore, the objective of this work was to develop a fast-running, lumped parameter model of the tympanic membrane (TM) with probabilistic dose-dependent prediction of injury risk.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2020
Source ID
10.1093/milmed/usz215

Entities

People

  • Anthony E Iyoho
  • Kevin Ho
  • Philemon Chan

Organizations

  • Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate
  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Auditory Neuroscience/Auditory Physiology.
  • Aviation Safety Risk Assessment.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)