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ENT Diagnostic Methods

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1. 120 db

2. disadvantage of fiberoptic laryngoscopy

3. vocal cords are attached

4. An air/bone gap where both dip below 25 indicates...
Neurological hearing
Mixed hearing loss
Perforation or fluid
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first

5. A sinus CT should be...
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss

6. Weber test goes away from bad ear
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural

7. a large ear canal volume (>2.5) indicates...
>88%
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Perforation
Perforation or fluid

8. ascending audiogram indicates...
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Maxillary sinuses
Breathe - speak
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)

9. xray is good for visualizing...
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Frontal sinuses
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema

10. the only conductive hearing loss you can't see - 'carhart notch'
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Normal
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Otosclerosis

11. Reinke's edema
CT
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
0-25 db
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema

12. advantages of direct laryngoscopy
Mixed hearing loss
Maxillary sinuses
Perforation or fluid
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords

13. Weber test goes toward bad ear
Indicates conductive hearing loss
One sided
85+ db
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss

14. vocal cords abduct to _______ and adduct to ______
Breathe - speak
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Neurological hearing

15. type b tympanogram
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Eustachian tube destruction
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
Perforation or fluid

16. meniere's is...
One sided
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.

17. small ear canal volume (<0.5) indicates...
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Obstruction or stenosis
High frequency loss (presbycusis)

18. caldwell view
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Frontal sinuses
One sided
Perforation

19. vocal cord nodules
0-25 db
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Perforation or fluid
One sided

20. The osteomeatal complex is between...
Normal
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss

21. profound hearing loss
Normal
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
85+ db
Eustachian tube destruction

22. conductive hearing loss has
CT
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Declining cochlear function
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)

23. advantage of mirror laryngoscopy

24. normal speech discrimination is...
0-25 db
CT
>88%
Otosclerosis

25. otoacoustic emissions (OAE)
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
>88%

26. if bone conduction is greater than air conduction
Maxillary sinuses
0-25 db
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss

27. bone conduction is...
Perforation
85+ db
Neurological hearing
Sensorineural hearing loss

28. notched audiogram indicates...
Declining cochlear function
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Noise exposure hearing loss

29. type A tympanogram
Normal
Maxillary sinuses
One sided
Systemic disease

30. type c tympanogram
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Doesn't require anesthesia
Perforation or fluid
Eustachian tube destruction

31. normal hearing loss
0-25 db
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Frontal sinuses
Systemic disease

32. study of choice for the sinuses
CT
Sensorineural hearing loss
Maxillary sinuses
Doesn't allow for biopsy

33. if air conduction is greater than bone conduction
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Obstruction or stenosis
Systemic disease
Perforation

34. a downward sloping audiogram indicates...
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
Doesn't require anesthesia
0-25 db

35. U-shaped audiogram indicates...
Sensorineural hearing loss
Mixed hearing loss
Normal
Noise exposure hearing loss

36. waters view
>88%
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Maxillary sinuses
One sided

37. Auditory brainstem response (ABR)
Normal
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Doesn't require anesthesia
Breathe - speak

38. MRIs are good for...
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Perforation
Perforation or fluid
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG

39. flat audiogram indicates...
Mixed hearing loss
Systemic disease
85+ db
Otosclerosis

40. decreased otoacoustic emissions indicate
Declining cochlear function
Doesn't require anesthesia
Obstruction or stenosis
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)