Test your basic knowledge |

ENT Diagnostic Methods

Instructions:

Answer 40 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. 120 db

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

2. U-shaped audiogram indicates...
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
0-25 db
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Sensorineural hearing loss

3. type A tympanogram
Eustachian tube destruction
Normal
Obstruction or stenosis
Indicates conductive hearing loss

4. a downward sloping audiogram indicates...
85+ db
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Declining cochlear function

5. Auditory brainstem response (ABR)
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Maxillary and frontal sinuses

6. xray is good for visualizing...
Neurological hearing
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Maxillary and frontal sinuses

7. type c tympanogram
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Neurological hearing
Eustachian tube destruction

8. normal speech discrimination is...
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
0-25 db
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
>88%

9. Weber test goes toward bad ear
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Maxillary sinuses

10. study of choice for the sinuses
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Normal
CT

11. A sinus CT should be...
One sided
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Noise exposure hearing loss
Coronal (frontal) without contrast

12. waters view
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Maxillary sinuses
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Obstruction or stenosis

13. advantages of direct laryngoscopy
Normal
Eustachian tube destruction
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords

14. conductive hearing loss has
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Indicates conductive hearing loss
>88%

15. Reinke's edema
One sided
Perforation or fluid
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss

16. disadvantage of fiberoptic laryngoscopy

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

17. bone conduction is...
Doesn't allow for biopsy
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Neurological hearing
Frontal sinuses

18. An air/bone gap where both dip below 25 indicates...
Mixed hearing loss
Eustachian tube destruction
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
CT

19. meniere's is...
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Mixed hearing loss
Neurological hearing
One sided

20. notched audiogram indicates...
Frontal sinuses
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Declining cochlear function
Noise exposure hearing loss

21. if bone conduction is greater than air conduction
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Noise exposure hearing loss

22. flat audiogram indicates...
Perforation or fluid
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Obstruction or stenosis
Systemic disease

23. normal hearing loss
0-25 db
Otosclerosis
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema

24. Weber test goes away from bad ear
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Frontal sinuses
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)

25. caldwell view
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Doesn't require anesthesia
Frontal sinuses
Coronal (frontal) without contrast

26. vocal cords are attached

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

27. decreased otoacoustic emissions indicate
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Declining cochlear function
Perforation

28. ascending audiogram indicates...
Perforation
Sensorineural hearing loss
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)

29. vocal cord nodules
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Doesn't require anesthesia
Neurological hearing
Mixed hearing loss

30. if air conduction is greater than bone conduction
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)

31. small ear canal volume (<0.5) indicates...
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Obstruction or stenosis
High frequency loss (presbycusis)

32. profound hearing loss
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
85+ db
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)

33. type b tympanogram
85+ db
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Perforation or fluid

34. MRIs are good for...
Perforation
Neurological hearing
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities

35. The osteomeatal complex is between...
Perforation
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
0-25 db
One sided

36. otoacoustic emissions (OAE)
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Perforation
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Systemic disease

37. a large ear canal volume (>2.5) indicates...
Perforation
Frontal sinuses
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Noise exposure hearing loss

38. the only conductive hearing loss you can't see - 'carhart notch'
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Perforation or fluid
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Otosclerosis

39. vocal cords abduct to _______ and adduct to ______
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Breathe - speak
Declining cochlear function

40. advantage of mirror laryngoscopy

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183