Determinar la capacidad auditiva en conductores de la compañía de transporte Ricaurte S.A. Cuenca 2017

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The hearing is an important and fundamental system that allows the acquisition and development of the language in the human beings. The language offers to the human beings the capacity of communication and social participation, favoring the interaction of the same ones inside the cultural group to which they belong.

Different factors can alter the hearing of a person, between them the exhibition to the constant noise and of high intensity. The drivers of urban transport are exposed every day to the noise. The level of intensity and the time of exhibition to the noise of the vehicles that they lead they generate alterations in his health, being the hearing one of the most affected and less studied organs of this population. For what is important to know the prevalence of auditory alterations that can generate the exhibition to the noise.

GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To determine the auditory capacity in the drivers of the company of urban transport “Ricaurte S.A" of the city of Cuenca 2017.

METHODOLOGY: This study is descriptive transverse court. The universe of study includes the drivers of the company of Urban Transport "Ricaurte S.A " of the city of Cuenca that corresponds to 90 patients of masculine sex, in ages between 25 to 60 years. The group of study was realized subjected to and otoscopy and audiometric test, later quantify the results determining the prevalence of auditory alterations of the group of study. The results were interpreted by means of tables and graph.

RESULTS: Through the application of hearing tests to the drivers of the public transport company "Ricaurte SA", it was shown that there is a decrease in hearing capacity by 40% from 21 to 40dB in the range of 20 to 40 years, while the 33% presented normal hearing