Acoustic Trauma

Radium · medicine forum addict Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 87

Acoustic trauma can result from sudden exposure of the hair cells in
the organ of corti in the left cochlea to sine-waves at a frequency
higher than 40,000 Hz and an intensity louder than 140 dB. Symptoms
are:

1. Sudden and complete deafness in the left ear; perception of an
CRT-like high-pitched sine-wave tone in the left ear

2. Severe pain in the site of trauma in the left cochlea

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