Re: Hearing loss

[Rollie Parrish <rparrish@flightweb.com>]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Pickett, Debra L. wrote:

> We have incorporated an audiologist test with our annual flight physical.
> We have 8 flight nurses, and over the last 2 years have noticed a moderate
> hearing loss on 3 of 8 nurses.  We currently were helmets that are assigned
> to each crewmembers.  Has any other program noticed a hearing loss any
> crewmembers?

Just curious as to whether or not any of your crew wears ear plugs in
addition to helmets? If so, was there less incidence of hearing loss in
the group that wears ear plugs than in the group that doesn't?

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