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To the Editor: Passenger-vehicle air bags are deployed by the rapid generation of a large volume of gas. This creates a brief (<100 msec), intense (150 to 170 dB) pressure wave that propagates through the passenger compartment.¹ The precise sound pressure produced relates to factors such as vehicle size, the number of occupants, and ventilation. We describe a patient with traumatic hearing loss following air-bag inflation.

A 30-year-old man, wearing lap and shoulder belts, was driving a station wagon at about 40 km per hour (25 miles per hour) when the car went off the shoulder of a snow-covered road. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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