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ENT Diagnostic Methods

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1. Weber test goes away from bad ear
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Systemic disease
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Sensorineural hearing loss

2. flat audiogram indicates...
Obstruction or stenosis
Frontal sinuses
Systemic disease
Breathe - speak

3. bone conduction is...
Neurological hearing
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Noise exposure hearing loss
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities

4. caldwell view
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Frontal sinuses
Mixed hearing loss
Doesn't allow for biopsy

5. disadvantage of fiberoptic laryngoscopy

6. Auditory brainstem response (ABR)
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Systemic disease

7. type c tympanogram
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Eustachian tube destruction
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities

8. if bone conduction is greater than air conduction
One sided
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Otosclerosis
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss

9. vocal cords abduct to _______ and adduct to ______
85+ db
Eustachian tube destruction
Breathe - speak
Maxillary sinuses

10. type A tympanogram
Normal
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Doesn't require anesthesia
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf

11. normal speech discrimination is...
Indicates conductive hearing loss
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
>88%
Frontal sinuses

12. vocal cords are attached

13. Reinke's edema
Eustachian tube destruction
Obstruction or stenosis
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
Perforation or fluid

14. a downward sloping audiogram indicates...
CT
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Normal

15. the only conductive hearing loss you can't see - 'carhart notch'
Otosclerosis
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Mixed hearing loss

16. notched audiogram indicates...
Noise exposure hearing loss
0-25 db
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)

17. Weber test goes toward bad ear
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
One sided
Indicates conductive hearing loss

18. A sinus CT should be...
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Frontal sinuses
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf

19. advantage of mirror laryngoscopy

20. type b tympanogram
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
Sensorineural hearing loss
Perforation or fluid
Maxillary and frontal sinuses

21. meniere's is...
Perforation
One sided
Frontal sinuses
Declining cochlear function

22. study of choice for the sinuses
0-25 db
Maxillary sinuses
CT
Anteriorly 'point to the front'

23. U-shaped audiogram indicates...
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
Frontal sinuses
Neurological hearing
Sensorineural hearing loss

24. The osteomeatal complex is between...
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
One sided

25. decreased otoacoustic emissions indicate
Mixed hearing loss
85+ db
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Declining cochlear function

26. a large ear canal volume (>2.5) indicates...
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
Perforation
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Coronal (frontal) without contrast

27. An air/bone gap where both dip below 25 indicates...
Mixed hearing loss
>88%
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG

28. profound hearing loss
85+ db
>88%
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss

29. conductive hearing loss has
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
One sided
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss

30. 120 db

31. advantages of direct laryngoscopy
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Frontal sinuses
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Anteriorly 'point to the front'

32. MRIs are good for...
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Neurological hearing
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Perforation

33. otoacoustic emissions (OAE)
Maxillary sinuses
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first

34. small ear canal volume (<0.5) indicates...
Obstruction or stenosis
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
0-25 db
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities

35. vocal cord nodules
>88%
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Sensorineural hearing loss
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural

36. if air conduction is greater than bone conduction
Maxillary sinuses
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Perforation
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema

37. xray is good for visualizing...
Frontal sinuses
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Obstruction or stenosis
Perforation

38. normal hearing loss
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
0-25 db
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Systemic disease

39. waters view
Obstruction or stenosis
Neurological hearing
Maxillary sinuses
Sensorineural hearing loss

40. ascending audiogram indicates...
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
0-25 db
>88%
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses