Air Bags and Hearing Revisited
A few years ago at Hearing International we did a post regarding air bags and their effect on hearing. That report was primarily about how these miracle devices work and save lives with a comment about the impulse noise issues surrounding the their deployment. Among people in accidents with airbags deploying, Price (2007) suggests that…
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A 2012 blog on air bags at Hearing International ended with the statement, “Sensorineural hearing loss due to air bag deployment is rare, and there have been only a few reports in the English literature. Audiologists know, however, that 140 dB of intensity is the threshold of pain and these intensities can cause hearing loss under some…
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