Pressure-equalizing earplugs do not prevent barotrauma on descent from 8000 ft cabin altitude

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1079-1082

  Klokker, Mads ^a,c,d   Vesterhauge, Søren ^a   Jansen, Erik C ^b  

^a Dept of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery   (Denmark)

^b Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^c Danish Armed Forces Health Services   (Denmark)

^d University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aviation; Common cold; Double blinded design; Random design; Sudden incapacitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; AVIATION; BAROTRAUMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EAR PROTECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE EAR PRESSURE; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OTALGIA; OTOSCOPY; PRESSURE CHAMBER; PRESSURE EQUALIZING EARPLUG; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SATISFACTION;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AGED; ALTITUDE; BAROTRAUMA; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EAR PROTECTIVE DEVICES; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; OTOSCOPY; PAIN; PRESSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 27744488972     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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