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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3303</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url">http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.13215</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Transient Hearing Loss in Patients after Surgery Under Spinal Anaesthesia: A Tertiary Care Centre Based Study&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Benare</surname><given-names>Aparna Girish</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Khot</surname><given-names>Aditya</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>16</day><month>01</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>26</fpage><lpage>28</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: In most of the surgical interventions, spinal route of anaesthesia is the very frequent type of regional anaesthesia __ampersandsignamp; it__ampersandsignrsquo;s been used for with minimal complications. But few cases report hearing loss post-spinal anaesthesia, mostly affecting the low range frequency. Objective: To study the post-spinal anaesthesia hearing loss observed in the patient at a tertiary care centre. Method: The current study was done in a total of 60 cases who went for surgical intervention under spinal anaesthesia. Informed written consent was obtained from each patient. The pre-anaesthetic check-up was done in all the cases. Audiometry was done in all the cases before surgery. Post-operative hearing loss was recorded on 2nd and 5th day after surgery. The audiogram was done again after 1 month of surgery to verify whether hearing loss is temporary or permanent. Also resulting complications if any have been recorded. Results: Maximum cases (40%) in our study were in the age group of 21-30 years followed by 31-40 years of age. Majority of them were male (60%) and 90% of patients were of the American Society of anaesthesiologists (ASA grade I. Temporary hearing loss was diagnosed in 13.33% cases. Post spinal headache was observed in 16.67% cases and post-spinal hypotension was observed in 23.33% cases. Two cases were having a hearing loss at 2000Hz while at 250Hz and 6000Hz one case each was diagnosed. This hearing loss was completely revered in one month. Conclusion: Transient hearing loss was diagnosed in 13.33% patients and it was found that hearing loss was completely reversible.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> Hearing loss</kwd><kwd> Spinal anaesthesia</kwd><kwd> Audiogram</kwd><kwd> Surgical intervention</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
