Risk of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss for Orthopaedic Surgeons
العنوان: | Risk of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss for Orthopaedic Surgeons |
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المؤلفون: | Stephanie A. Kwan, Jeffrey C. Lynch, Michael DeFrance, Kerri-Anne Ciesielka, Michael Rivlin, Joseph N. Daniel |
المصدر: | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 104:2053-2058 |
بيانات النشر: | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2022. |
سنة النشر: | 2022 |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Surgery, General Medicine |
الوصف: | Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) affects the ability of an individual to communicate and can negatively impact quality of life. The risk to orthopaedic surgeons of developing NIHL as a result of occupational exposures in the operating room (OR) is currently unknown. Hearing protection is recommended for levels of85 decibels (dB), irrespective of length of exposure. The primary goal of the present study was to determine whether orthopaedic surgeons are exposed to harmful noise levels in the OR that puts them at risk for developing NIHL.A prospective review was conducted with use of intraoperative audio recordings across 6 orthopaedic subspecialties. Recordings were made in ORs prior to the surgical start time to serve as baseline controls. Decibel levels were reported as the maximum dB level (MDL), defined as the highest sound pressure level during the measurement period, and as the time-weighted average (TWA), defined as the average dB level projected over an 8-hour time period. Noise doses were reported as the percentage of maximum allowable daily noise (dose) and as the measured dose projected forward over 8 hours (projected dose).Three hundred audio recordings were made and analyzed. The average MDL ranged from 96.9 to 102.0 dB, with noise levels for all subspeciality procedures being significantly greater compared with the control recordings (p0.001). Overall, MDLs were85 dB in 84% of cases and100 dB in 35.0% of cases. The procedure with the highest noise dose was a microdiscectomy, which reached 11.3% of the maximum allowable daily noise and a projected dose of 104.1%. Among subspecialties, adult reconstruction had the highest dose and projected dose per case among subspecialties.The present results showed that orthopaedic surgeons are regularly exposed to damaging noise levels (i.e.,85 dB), putting them at risk for permanent hearing loss. Further investigation into measures to mitigate noise exposure in the OR and prevent hearing loss in orthopaedic surgeons should be undertaken.Orthopaedic surgeons are at risk for NIHL as a result of occupational exposures in the OR. |
تدمد: | 1535-1386 0021-9355 |
URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::1f70e9373a2040c95f7c48e5fdd44b07 https://doi.org/10.2106/jbjs.22.00582 |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....1f70e9373a2040c95f7c48e5fdd44b07 |
قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
تدمد: | 15351386 00219355 |
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