[The quality of voice in coal-miners after burn/inhalation injury due to methane explosion].

Abstract

The job as a coal-miner exposes to the greatest risk. One of the most dangerous health hazard is a burn/inhalation injury during the methane explosion. The victims undergo physical trauma, effect of high temperature and inhalation of toxic gases and products of incomplete combustion, As a result of inhalation injury both, upper and lower airways are affected. The aim of the study was to analyse the relationship between burn/inhalation injury and quality of voice in affected coal-miners. A group of 23 patients (men) in age from 28 to 59 (mean 38.5) 3 years after burn/inhalation injury participated in this study. The voice evaluation based on ENT examination, videlaryngostroboscopy, acoustic analysis, MPT parameter and GRBAS analysis was performed. The special control group of coal-miners served as a control. On the basis of the subjective evaluation and the objective acoustic analysis, aerodynamic parameter and videlaryngostroboscopy the worse quality of voice in the group of injured coalminers was shown in comparison to the control group. No substantial correlation between the acoustic parameters, MPT parameter and ventilating rates was found.

• Authors: Boguslawa Orecka, Łukasz Sikora, Maciej Misiołek, Rafał Fira, Katarzyna Miśkiewicz-Orczyk, Zbigniew Paluch, Andrzej Krzywiecki, Alicja Grzanka, Grzegorz Namysłowski
• Journal: Otolaryngologia polska = The Polish otolaryngology (Otolaryngol Pol) 2012 Mar-Apr Vol. 66 Issue 2 Pg. 102-8 ISSN: 0030-6657 [Print] Poland
• Vernacular Title: Jakość głosu u górników po urazie inhalacyjnym górnych dróg oddechowych w wyniku wybuchu metanu.
• PMID: 22500499 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Methane

Topics

• Adult
• Blast Injuries (complications)
• Burns, Inhalation (complications)
• Coal Mining
• Environmental Monitoring
• Explosions
• Humans
• Male
• Methane
• Middle Aged
• Occupational Exposure (adverse effects)
• Occupational Injuries (complications)
• Voice Disorders (diagnosis, etiology)
• Voice Quality