Noise exposure and hearing impairment among Chinese restaurant workers and entertainment employees in Hong Kong.

Background: Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is a major concern in the non-manufacturing industries. This study aimed to investigate the occupational noise exposure and the NIHL among Chinese restaurant workers and entertainment employees working in the service industry in Hong Kong.

Methods: This cross-sectional survey involved a total of 1,670 participants.

Short electrode insertion in cochlear implantation: speech perception performance of Cantonese-speaking subjects.

Conclusions: Subjects with cochlear ossification derived benefits in terms of speech performance similar to those of the non-ossified group. It is thus recommended that the insertion of short electrode arrays should be considered an alternative choice for patients with cochlear ossification.

Objective: Cochlear ossification has been recognized as a major obstacle to the full insertion of a multichannel cochlear implant electrode array.

Translation of the dizziness handicap inventory into Chinese, validation of it, and evaluation of the quality of life of patients with chronic dizziness.

The aims of this study were 1) to translate the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) into Chinese and to validate it and 2) to use the Chinese DHI and the Chinese (Hong Kong) Short Form-36 Health Survey (Chinese [HK] SF-36) to evaluate the quality of life (QoL) of patients with chronic dizziness. Seventy-one patients with 6 months of dizziness due to vestibular dysfunction were evaluated initially, 7 days later (n = 49), and after 7 months of medical treatment (n = 17). The Chinese DHI has been shown to retain good test-retest reliability (intraclass correlation coefficient range, 0.

[Radiological study of temporal bone in children with profound deafness before cochlear implant: CT vs magnetic resonance imaging].

Objective: To evaluate the clinical application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and CT in children with profound deafness before cochlear implant and their impact on surgical decision.

Methods: The pre-operative CT and MRI data from 71 children with bilateral profound deafness planned for cochlear implant were studied.

Results: 12 patients showed enlarged vestibular aqueduct (16.

Superiority of bilateral cochlear implantation over unilateral cochlear implantation in tone discrimination in chinese patients.

Purpose: The benefits of bilateral cochlear implants (CIs) versus unilateral CIs were evaluated by comparing the Cantonese lexical tone discrimination scores conducted in a quiet environment and against a background noise.

Materials And Methods: Four postlingually deafened Cantonese-speaking adults (2 men and 2 women) with bilateral CIs were included in this study. The subjects were their own control in the monaural hearing condition.