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ENT Diagnostic Methods

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1. xray is good for visualizing...
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Frontal sinuses
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural

2. profound hearing loss
85+ db
Sensorineural hearing loss
Neurological hearing
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities

3. Auditory brainstem response (ABR)
Normal
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf

4. type b tympanogram
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Perforation or fluid
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities

5. ascending audiogram indicates...
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
Neurological hearing
Perforation

6. 120 db

7. otoacoustic emissions (OAE)
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Noise exposure hearing loss
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first

8. the only conductive hearing loss you can't see - 'carhart notch'
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Otosclerosis
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss

9. meniere's is...
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Perforation or fluid
Otosclerosis
One sided

10. U-shaped audiogram indicates...
0-25 db
Sensorineural hearing loss
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Systemic disease

11. The osteomeatal complex is between...
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Normal
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Coronal (frontal) without contrast

12. advantage of mirror laryngoscopy

13. normal hearing loss
Breathe - speak
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Maxillary sinuses
0-25 db

14. caldwell view
Doesn't require anesthesia
Declining cochlear function
CT
Frontal sinuses

15. decreased otoacoustic emissions indicate
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Systemic disease
Declining cochlear function

16. disadvantage of fiberoptic laryngoscopy

17. MRIs are good for...
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural

18. small ear canal volume (<0.5) indicates...
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
>88%
Eustachian tube destruction
Obstruction or stenosis

19. vocal cord nodules
Obstruction or stenosis
Sensorineural hearing loss
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
85+ db

20. Weber test goes toward bad ear
>88%
Sensorineural hearing loss
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Maxillary and frontal sinuses

21. Reinke's edema
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Declining cochlear function
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
Obstruction or stenosis

22. waters view
Noise exposure hearing loss
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Maxillary sinuses

23. flat audiogram indicates...
Normal
Obstruction or stenosis
Systemic disease
CT

24. vocal cords are attached

25. type A tympanogram
Neurological hearing
Breathe - speak
Maxillary sinuses
Normal

26. An air/bone gap where both dip below 25 indicates...
Mixed hearing loss
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
CT
Doesn't require anesthesia

27. normal speech discrimination is...
Doesn't require anesthesia
>88%
Systemic disease
Normal

28. type c tympanogram
Noise exposure hearing loss
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
CT
Eustachian tube destruction

29. vocal cords abduct to _______ and adduct to ______
Breathe - speak
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Perforation

30. a large ear canal volume (>2.5) indicates...
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Perforation
Obstruction or stenosis

31. Weber test goes away from bad ear
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
Perforation or fluid
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss

32. study of choice for the sinuses
CT
Declining cochlear function
Systemic disease
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural

33. conductive hearing loss has
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
>88%
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)

34. if bone conduction is greater than air conduction
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Obstruction or stenosis
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Perforation or fluid

35. A sinus CT should be...
Obstruction or stenosis
Breathe - speak
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Systemic disease

36. advantages of direct laryngoscopy
Maxillary sinuses
Perforation
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.

37. a downward sloping audiogram indicates...
0-25 db
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
One sided
High frequency loss (presbycusis)

38. notched audiogram indicates...
Obstruction or stenosis
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Noise exposure hearing loss

39. bone conduction is...
Neurological hearing
Noise exposure hearing loss
Breathe - speak
CT

40. if air conduction is greater than bone conduction
Noise exposure hearing loss
0-25 db
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Perforation