[The problems of hearing impairment in the flying staff of commercial aviation in Russia].
The authors discuss the problems pertaining to the growing incidence of hearing impairment in the members of the flying staff employed in commercial aviation of Russia and the main criteria used to elucidate the causes behind occupational diseases of the organs of hearing. Special attention is given to the principal normative documents regulating the methodological basis on which the acoustic factor in the aircraft cockpit is evaluated, peculiarities of occupational sensorineural hearing impairment and the methods for its detection. The main errors in the determination of the relationship between the working conditions and the diseases of the organs of hearing are discussed.
Otdelenie klinicheskikh issledovaniĭ i profpatologii Vserossiĭskogo NII zheleznodorozhnoĭ gigieny Rospotrebnadzora, Moskva, Rossiia, 127299.
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Pankova
Federal'nyĭ mediko-biofizicheskiĭ tsentr im. A.I. Burnaziana FMBA Rossii, Moskva, Rossiia, 123098.
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Bushmanov
D000328:Adult; D001359:Aviation / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006317:Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology