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Permanent bilateral acoustic trauma due to air bag deployment in a young female adult
Ioannis Kastanioudakis1, Georgios Exarchakos, Nausica Ziavra
1Department of Otolaryngology, Ioannina University School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece. otorl@cc.uoi.gr
The Journal of Laryngology and Otology
|March 11, 2003
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.
