Individual Susceptibility to NTHL and New Perspective in Treatment of Acute Noise Trauma
Abstract
There would be great interest in finding a test which predicts individual susceptibility to permanent threshold shift. Such test would allow identification of people who are most likely to suffer hearing damage in high noise areas and thereby reduce the number of people presenting NIHL. Considering the consequences of NIHL for the health of the soldiers, the cost of the treatments, the operational and compensation costs induced by NIHL, it is necessary to assess the actual efficiency of the present medical treatments of the acoustic trauma. Preliminary results indicate that some treatments speed up the recovery and correspond to lower threshold shifts and smaller morphological damages. Moreover, experiments are in progress to assess the interest of new treatments applied directly to the inner ear.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADP010344
Entities
People
- A. L. Dancer