TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Occupational Hearing Loss A1 - Golub, Justin S. A2 - Lalwani, Anil K. PY - 2020 T2 - Current Diagnosis & Treatment Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, 4e AB - The hearing mechanism, being very sensitive to sound stimuli, is also quite susceptible to injury. Many workplaces are hazardous to hearing health due to exposure to (1) noise, (2) physical trauma, and/or (3) toxic materials. Each of these elements comprises a section in this chapter. The focus is noise damage, however, as it is far and away the most prevalent type of occupational auditory injury. The final section discusses medicolegal aspects of occupational hearing loss. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/19 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1169080519 ER -