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ENT Diagnostic Methods

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1. Weber test goes toward bad ear
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Normal
Declining cochlear function

2. waters view
Maxillary sinuses
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)

3. ascending audiogram indicates...
Eustachian tube destruction
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Systemic disease
Doesn't allow for biopsy

4. conductive hearing loss has
Sensorineural hearing loss
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)

5. the only conductive hearing loss you can't see - 'carhart notch'
Otosclerosis
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Systemic disease
Declining cochlear function

6. The osteomeatal complex is between...
Eustachian tube destruction
Systemic disease
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Mixed hearing loss

7. study of choice for the sinuses
CT
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf

8. Auditory brainstem response (ABR)
Declining cochlear function
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss

9. a large ear canal volume (>2.5) indicates...
Doesn't require anesthesia
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Neurological hearing
Perforation

10. type b tympanogram
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Perforation or fluid
85+ db
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)

11. small ear canal volume (<0.5) indicates...
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Obstruction or stenosis
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema

12. if air conduction is greater than bone conduction
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Perforation
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural

13. normal speech discrimination is...
Noise exposure hearing loss
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
85+ db
>88%

14. flat audiogram indicates...
Systemic disease
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Breathe - speak
High frequency loss (presbycusis)

15. MRIs are good for...
Doesn't require anesthesia
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords

16. vocal cord nodules
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
>88%

17. An air/bone gap where both dip below 25 indicates...
Mixed hearing loss
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Sensorineural hearing loss

18. notched audiogram indicates...
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Noise exposure hearing loss
CT
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.

19. Reinke's edema
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Doesn't require anesthesia
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
Eustachian tube destruction

20. caldwell view
Breathe - speak
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Frontal sinuses

21. advantage of mirror laryngoscopy

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22. meniere's is...
One sided
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
>88%
Mixed hearing loss

23. advantages of direct laryngoscopy
One sided
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
0-25 db
Maxillary and frontal sinuses

24. Weber test goes away from bad ear
85+ db
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss

25. vocal cords are attached

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26. decreased otoacoustic emissions indicate
Declining cochlear function
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Maxillary sinuses

27. profound hearing loss
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
85+ db
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
High frequency loss (presbycusis)

28. type A tympanogram
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Doesn't require anesthesia
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Normal

29. 120 db

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30. U-shaped audiogram indicates...
Sensorineural hearing loss
Maxillary sinuses
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Normal

31. normal hearing loss
0-25 db
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Neurological hearing
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss

32. A sinus CT should be...
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
0-25 db
CT
Coronal (frontal) without contrast

33. if bone conduction is greater than air conduction
0-25 db
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Otosclerosis
Eustachian tube destruction

34. disadvantage of fiberoptic laryngoscopy

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35. vocal cords abduct to _______ and adduct to ______
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Breathe - speak
CT

36. xray is good for visualizing...
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf

37. a downward sloping audiogram indicates...
Systemic disease
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Declining cochlear function
Normal

38. otoacoustic emissions (OAE)
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Eustachian tube destruction
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
One sided

39. type c tympanogram
Eustachian tube destruction
Sensorineural hearing loss
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Doesn't allow for biopsy

40. bone conduction is...
Maxillary sinuses
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Neurological hearing
Breathe - speak