Trabalho Final do Curso de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 2014Noise induced hearing loss is characterized by being a type of bilateral sensorineural deafness. The etiology is multifactorial, and the noise is still responsible for many systemic effects. It is an important factor for work disability, and workers at risk should be assessed annually and subject to protection. In addition to increasingly early youth exposure to noise, leads to installation of related morbidities, earlier than would be supposed.. Interference with physical and chemical mechanisms of the middle ear is responsible for hearing damage, often irreversible. On the basis of the biological mechanisms are ionic imbalances (...