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ENT Diagnostic Methods

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1. flat audiogram indicates...
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Systemic disease
Sensorineural hearing loss
Perforation

2. advantages of direct laryngoscopy
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Indicates conductive hearing loss

3. a downward sloping audiogram indicates...
Perforation or fluid
Doesn't require anesthesia
Systemic disease
High frequency loss (presbycusis)

4. U-shaped audiogram indicates...
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Declining cochlear function
Sensorineural hearing loss
0-25 db

5. waters view
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Maxillary sinuses
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Anteriorly 'point to the front'

6. disadvantage of fiberoptic laryngoscopy

7. caldwell view
Frontal sinuses
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Mixed hearing loss
Maxillary and frontal sinuses

8. vocal cords abduct to _______ and adduct to ______
Declining cochlear function
Breathe - speak
0-25 db
Neurological hearing

9. notched audiogram indicates...
Noise exposure hearing loss
Normal
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first

10. Weber test goes away from bad ear
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss

11. type A tympanogram
Otosclerosis
Normal
Frontal sinuses
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses

12. ascending audiogram indicates...
CT
Sensorineural hearing loss
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
85+ db

13. decreased otoacoustic emissions indicate
CT
Declining cochlear function
Normal
One sided

14. type b tympanogram
CT
Declining cochlear function
Neurological hearing
Perforation or fluid

15. if air conduction is greater than bone conduction
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG

16. vocal cord nodules
0-25 db
>88%
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
85+ db

17. A sinus CT should be...
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Maxillary sinuses
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses

18. MRIs are good for...
>88%
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Perforation
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first

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

20. if bone conduction is greater than air conduction
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Neurological hearing

21. normal hearing loss
0-25 db
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Doesn't allow for biopsy

22. vocal cords are attached

23. 120 db

24. Auditory brainstem response (ABR)
One sided
Perforation
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Neurological hearing

25. advantage of mirror laryngoscopy

26. Weber test goes toward bad ear
85+ db
Sensorineural hearing loss
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords

27. profound hearing loss
85+ db
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Perforation

28. bone conduction is...
CT
0-25 db
Neurological hearing
Obstruction or stenosis

29. The osteomeatal complex is between...
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Perforation or fluid
Maxillary sinuses
0-25 db

30. otoacoustic emissions (OAE)
Eustachian tube destruction
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.

31. normal speech discrimination is...
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Noise exposure hearing loss
>88%

32. xray is good for visualizing...
One sided
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Normal
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss

33. meniere's is...
Neurological hearing
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Perforation
One sided

34. An air/bone gap where both dip below 25 indicates...
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
0-25 db
Normal
Mixed hearing loss

35. Reinke's edema
0-25 db
>88%
Maxillary sinuses
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema

36. a large ear canal volume (>2.5) indicates...
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
Perforation
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Neurological hearing

37. study of choice for the sinuses
Indicates conductive hearing loss
CT
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Neurological hearing

38. small ear canal volume (<0.5) indicates...
Neurological hearing
Eustachian tube destruction
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Obstruction or stenosis

39. the only conductive hearing loss you can't see - 'carhart notch'
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
Otosclerosis
Perforation

40. type c tympanogram
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Declining cochlear function
Eustachian tube destruction