AIM: To review the literature about the effects of environmental noise on the hearing ability of firefighters. METHOD: The PubMed and Scielo databases were searched and studies from 2002 to 2012 that included the keywords ...

Objectives: Characterize the relevance of preventing hearing loss, to approach the insertion of the speech therapist in the Unified Health System and report the importance of this professional in the clinical and management ...

Hearing loss is considered one of the most common clinical manifestations in the world, which can be detected from an early age with subjective and objective examinations. The literature indicates that there is a higher ...

Cochlear synaptopathy produced by exposure to noise levels that cause only transient auditory threshold elevations is a condition that affects many people and is believed to contribute to poor speech discrimination in noisy ...

Objectives/Hypothesis: Our goal was to assess the impact of personal music players, earphones, and music styles on output, the subject's preferred listening levels, and outline recommendations for the prevention of ...

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the presence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in patients presenting with only sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHNL) during the COVID-19 ...