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Suction tube noise and myringotomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

M. G. Spencer
Affiliation:
M. G. Spencer, M.A., B.M., B.Ch., 1 Warburton close Harrow, Middlesex HA3 6SU.

Abstact

The possibility of a noise-induced hearing loss occurring as a result of a high level of sucker-tip noise in myringtomy for seromucinous otitis media is discussed, A group of twenty-four ears is investigated and the noise levels generated by the suction tube are mearsured at operation by means of a probe microphone lowered into the external auditory meatus The conclusions reached are that, although the sound levels attained are at times quite high, they are not of suffcient amplitude, nor are they present for a suffcient length of time, to produce a sencori-neural hearing loss.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1980

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