Hearing in military pilots: One-time audiometry in pilots of fighters, transports, and helicopters

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-61

  Raynal, Marc ^a   Kossowski, Michel ^a   Job, Agnes ^b  

^a PERCY MILITARY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHES   (France)

Author keywords

Audiograms; Ear asymmetry; Ear vulnerability; Hearing thresholds; NIHL; Occupational noise; Otitis media

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AIRCRAFT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDIOMETRY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HELICOPTER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NOISE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OTITIS MEDIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; SPEECH DISORDER;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AUDIOMETRY; AVIATION; FRANCE; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; OTITIS MEDIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; TINNITUS;

EID: 30644465102     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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