Hearing acuity in post spinal analgesia period

100 cases of either sex 96 males and 4 females in their mean age group of 45 year ± 14.51 standard deviation were selected for this study to analyse the Hearing Acuity in the post spinal analgesia period during a period of eight months in the E.N.T department of the J.N. Medical College A.M.U. Aligarh. The size of the needle used for spinal analgesia was 22G and the equipment for Audiometry was the pure tone Audiometer. Pure tone Audiometry was done pre-operatively and then on the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 12th subsequent post-operative days and then after six months. It was found that 12% of the patients showed incidence of mild hearing loss. However, the loss was transient, reversible, within low frequency range (250, 500, 1000 Hz), and no patient suffered from any permanent hearing loss.