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| Title: | Tinnitus in an active duty navy diver: A review of inner ear barotrauma, tinnitus, and its treatment. |
| Authors: | Duplessis, CA
Hoffer, M |
| Keywords: | DIVING
divers
case report
barotrauma
otic barotrauma
Inner-ear barotrauma
ear
tinnitus
hearing loss
HEARING
vertigo
perilymphatic fistula |
| Issue Date: | 2006 |
| Publisher: | Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Inc. |
| Citation: | Undersea Hyperb Med. 2006 Jul-Aug;33(4):223-30. Review. |
| Abstract: | This case elucidates subtle cues that must be appreciated by the examiner in diving related injuries, who may not have experience with barotrauma-mediated pathology. Inner-ear barotrauma (IEBT) does not mandate ostensible hearing loss or vertigo; tinnitus may be the sole manifestation. Symptoms may present hours or even days post-dive. A common misconception exists that there are no efficacious treatment options for IEBT short of surgery for an overt perilymphatic fistula. Treatment options are available including acute high dose steroid administration, as prescribed for acute noise-induced or idiopathic hearing loss, optimally administered within three weeks of the acute insult. Tinnitus does not necessarily constitute a chronic untreatable symptom, which the patient must learn "to live with". |
| Description: | Undersea & hyperbaric medicine : journal of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Inc. |
| URI: | http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/5043 |
| Appears in Collections: | Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Journal
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