The webinar will review the elements of the OSHA Hearing Conservation Standard with a focus on audiometric testing. Audiometric testing is a required and important part of a Hearing Conservation ...

This presents difficulties, as the patient might respond to the accidental stimulation of the non-test ear, resulting in the stored threshold being better than it would be if the signal came from its ...

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The Békésy test is an automated method for measuring hearing thresholds, commonly used for audiometric screening and detecting noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). This test utilizes pulsed tones that ...

A congressionally mandated study by the Institute of Medicine assessed noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus associated with military service from World War II to the present, the effects of noise ...

Many health-related measurements are familiar to people, like perfect vision being represented as 20/20. However, how is healthy hearing quantified? Presented with the results of a hearing test, most ...