About The Book
Medical-Legal Evaluation of Hearing Loss, Third Edition includes the most accurate and current developments in the field with more than 250 new references. A comprehensive guide on hearing loss and the law, it examines claims, court cases, and the evolution of hearing conservation. This text addresses age-related hearing loss, genetics of hearing loss, and noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) – with a newly revised international standard (ISO-1999, 2013) that presents a comprehensive predictive model for NIHL, critical in medical-legal evaluation. Also examined is hearing loss due to toxins, trauma, and disease, as well as the effects of cardiovascular risk factors, race, and socioeconomic status. Furthermore, included tutorial discussions of acoustics, hearing, and hearing testing will be valuable to attorneys and other nonclinicians.
New or expanded topics include:
- The relationship of hearing loss to brain disorders
- Job fitness
- Accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Blast injury
- Recreational music and hearing loss
- Hypothesis of progressive NIHL after noise cessation
- Solvent ototoxicity
- Appropriate exchange rate for predicting noise hazard
- The American Medical Associations method of measurement of hearing disability
This new edition provides practical guidance for expert witnesses and legal practitioners and is essential for otolaryngologists, audiologists, occupational physicians, attorneys handling hearing loss claims, and claims management professionals.
About The Author
Robert A. Dobie, MD (1945-2019) was a clinical professor of otolaryngology at both the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) and the University of California, Davis, as well as partner in Dobie Associates, providing consultation in hearing, balance, hearing conservation, and ear disorders (www.dobieassociates.net). After medical school and residency training at Stanford University, Dr. Dobie completed fellowships in auditory physiology and otoneurosurgery. His previous positions include professor at the University of Washington, department chair at UTHSCSA, and director of extramural research at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health. He was a past president of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, past chair of the Hearing and Equilibrium Committee of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and served on the boards and councils of many other professional organizations and scholarly journals. Dr. Dobies research interests included age-related and noise-induced hearing loss, hearing conservation, and tinnitus. Additionally, he authored more than 200 publications.
Table Of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview
- Robert A. Dobie
Chapter 2. Acoustics
- Robert A. Dobie
Chapter 3. The Ear and Hearing Tests
- Robert A. Dobie
Chapter 4. Audiologic Evaluation for Exaggerated Hearing Loss
- Jack M. Snyder (updated by Robert A. Dobie)
Chapter 5. Impairment, Handicap, and Disability
- Robert A. Dobie
Chapter 6. Age-Related Hearing Loss
- Robert A. Dobie
Chapter 7. Noise-Induced Hearing Loss and Acoustic Trauma
- Robert A. Dobie
Chapter 8. Nonoccupational NIHL
- Robert A. Dobie
Chapter 9. The Evolution of Hearing Conservation Programs
- Dennis P. Driscoll
Chapter 10. Other Otologic Disorders
- Robert A. Dobie
Chapter 11. Legal Remedies for Hearing Loss
- Thomas R. Jayne
Chapter 12. Otologic Evaluation
- Robert A. Dobie
Chapter 13. Diagnosis and Allocation
- Robert A. Dobie
Chapter 14. Reporting
- Robert A. Dobie
Chapter 15. The Expert Witness
- Thomas R. Jayne
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