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ENT Diagnostic Methods

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1. profound hearing loss
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
85+ db
Perforation or fluid
Indicates conductive hearing loss

2. study of choice for the sinuses
CT
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Perforation

3. MRIs are good for...
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Coronal (frontal) without contrast

4. type b tympanogram
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Perforation or fluid

5. advantages of direct laryngoscopy
Perforation
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Systemic disease
Coronal (frontal) without contrast

6. type c tympanogram
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Eustachian tube destruction

7. notched audiogram indicates...
0-25 db
Maxillary sinuses
Systemic disease
Noise exposure hearing loss

8. advantage of mirror laryngoscopy

9. waters view
Doesn't require anesthesia
Maxillary sinuses
Perforation or fluid
Neurological hearing

10. The osteomeatal complex is between...
Obstruction or stenosis
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Coronal (frontal) without contrast

11. otoacoustic emissions (OAE)
Noise exposure hearing loss
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
>88%
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.

12. vocal cords abduct to _______ and adduct to ______
Noise exposure hearing loss
Breathe - speak
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses

13. meniere's is...
Noise exposure hearing loss
One sided
Otosclerosis
Eustachian tube destruction

14. a large ear canal volume (>2.5) indicates...
CT
Perforation
Otosclerosis
Doesn't allow for biopsy

15. small ear canal volume (<0.5) indicates...
Normal
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Obstruction or stenosis
Declining cochlear function

16. normal hearing loss
0-25 db
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Frontal sinuses
Obstruction or stenosis

17. An air/bone gap where both dip below 25 indicates...
Mixed hearing loss
Systemic disease
Perforation or fluid
>88%

18. xray is good for visualizing...
85+ db
>88%
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords

19. Weber test goes away from bad ear
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss

20. type A tympanogram
Normal
One sided
Noise exposure hearing loss
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)

21. flat audiogram indicates...
Maxillary sinuses
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Systemic disease

22. decreased otoacoustic emissions indicate
Declining cochlear function
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Frontal sinuses

23. caldwell view
Frontal sinuses
Sensorineural hearing loss
85+ db
Declining cochlear function

24. the only conductive hearing loss you can't see - 'carhart notch'
Perforation
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Otosclerosis

25. U-shaped audiogram indicates...
Perforation
Sensorineural hearing loss
Normal
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)

26. Weber test goes toward bad ear
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
Frontal sinuses
Indicates conductive hearing loss

27. if bone conduction is greater than air conduction
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Perforation
Eustachian tube destruction
One sided

28. normal speech discrimination is...
Perforation
Perforation or fluid
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
>88%

29. ascending audiogram indicates...
Mixed hearing loss
CT
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Doesn't require anesthesia

30. if air conduction is greater than bone conduction
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
0-25 db
Mixed hearing loss
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural

31. vocal cords are attached

32. Auditory brainstem response (ABR)
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
CT

33. a downward sloping audiogram indicates...
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Obstruction or stenosis
Anteriorly 'point to the front'

34. Reinke's edema
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
Obstruction or stenosis
Doesn't require anesthesia

35. conductive hearing loss has
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Neurological hearing
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Anteriorly 'point to the front'

36. A sinus CT should be...
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Sensorineural hearing loss
Perforation or fluid
Declining cochlear function

37. disadvantage of fiberoptic laryngoscopy

38. vocal cord nodules
>88%
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Perforation or fluid
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses

39. 120 db

40. bone conduction is...
Eustachian tube destruction
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Noise exposure hearing loss
Neurological hearing