title: Permanent bilateral acoustic trauma due to air bag deployment in a young female adult.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Ioannina University School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece. otorl@cc.uoi.gr
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kastanioudakis
authors.forename: Georgios
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Exarchakos
authors.forename: Nausica
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ziavra
authors.forename: Antonios
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Skevas
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000328:Adult; D017278:Air Bags / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001299:Audiometry; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006317:Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications