KEY POINTS:
- Noise exposure either occupational or recreational is the leading
preventable cause of hearing impairment
- 96.4% of medical students used electroacoustic devices with insert
type earphone being the most common connected to a smartphone
- Low frequency (250-500Hz) sensorineural hearing loss was found among
more than 30% of medical students
- Most of the students having hearing loss at Pure Tone Audiometry were
unaware of their hearing loss and did not complain tinnitus
- Specific bandwidth acoustic trauma can affect audiometric frequencies
other than conventionally described hence require management
accordingly