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Permanent bilateral acoustic trauma due to air bag deployment in a young female adult

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2006

Ioannis Kastanioudakis ,
Georgios Exarchakos ,
Nausica Ziavra  and
Antonios Skevas
Ioannis Kastanioudakis
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Ioannina University School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
Georgios Exarchakos
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Ioannina University School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
Nausica Ziavra
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Ioannina University School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
Antonios Skevas
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Ioannina University School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
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Abstract

Air bag safety systems have significantly reduced the number of occupant injuries from road traffic accidents (RTA). However air bag deployment is also associated with unavoidable risks.

We report the acoustic trauma incurred by a young female driver who was a heavy smoker as a consequence of air-bag deployment in a low speed RTA and the sparing of her child seated in the rear.

Keywords

Hearing Loss, Noise-inducedAccidents, TrafficAir Bags
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 117 , Issue 2 , February 2003 , pp. 138 - 140
Copyright
© Royal Society of Medicine Press Limited 2003

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