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ENT Diagnostic Methods

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1. Weber test goes away from bad ear
Noise exposure hearing loss
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
0-25 db
Doesn't require anesthesia

2. advantage of mirror laryngoscopy

3. The osteomeatal complex is between...
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses

4. caldwell view
Noise exposure hearing loss
Doesn't require anesthesia
Frontal sinuses
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)

5. A sinus CT should be...
Breathe - speak
85+ db
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
CT

6. normal speech discrimination is...
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
>88%
Otosclerosis

7. advantages of direct laryngoscopy
Sensorineural hearing loss
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Maxillary sinuses
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural

8. vocal cords abduct to _______ and adduct to ______
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Breathe - speak
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural

9. otoacoustic emissions (OAE)
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Breathe - speak

10. ascending audiogram indicates...
Frontal sinuses
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Normal
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf

11. type A tympanogram
Normal
Doesn't require anesthesia
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Maxillary and frontal sinuses

12. if bone conduction is greater than air conduction
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Perforation or fluid
Frontal sinuses
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG

13. the only conductive hearing loss you can't see - 'carhart notch'
Otosclerosis
Obstruction or stenosis
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Mixed hearing loss

14. flat audiogram indicates...
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Perforation or fluid
Neurological hearing
Systemic disease

15. small ear canal volume (<0.5) indicates...
Maxillary sinuses
Obstruction or stenosis
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss

16. MRIs are good for...
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Perforation or fluid

17. a downward sloping audiogram indicates...
Sensorineural hearing loss
Doesn't require anesthesia
Maxillary sinuses
High frequency loss (presbycusis)

18. type b tympanogram
Perforation or fluid
Neurological hearing
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf

19. 120 db

20. Auditory brainstem response (ABR)
Perforation
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
>88%

21. bone conduction is...
Neurological hearing
Systemic disease
0-25 db
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)

22. An air/bone gap where both dip below 25 indicates...
Sensorineural hearing loss
Normal
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Mixed hearing loss

23. vocal cord nodules
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Doesn't require anesthesia
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf

24. decreased otoacoustic emissions indicate
Declining cochlear function
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.

25. disadvantage of fiberoptic laryngoscopy

26. a large ear canal volume (>2.5) indicates...
Breathe - speak
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Perforation
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema

27. vocal cords are attached

28. waters view
>88%
Maxillary sinuses
CT
Systemic disease

29. normal hearing loss
0-25 db
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Otosclerosis
Frontal sinuses

30. notched audiogram indicates...
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Noise exposure hearing loss
Systemic disease
Breathe - speak

31. profound hearing loss
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
85+ db
One sided
Coronal (frontal) without contrast

32. if air conduction is greater than bone conduction
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Declining cochlear function
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
One sided

33. study of choice for the sinuses
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
85+ db
CT

34. meniere's is...
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
One sided
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords

35. xray is good for visualizing...
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
>88%
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema

36. type c tympanogram
Perforation
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Eustachian tube destruction
Noise exposure hearing loss

37. Reinke's edema
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
One sided
Frontal sinuses
Perforation

38. conductive hearing loss has
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Maxillary sinuses
0-25 db

39. Weber test goes toward bad ear
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Perforation or fluid
Normal
Noise exposure hearing loss

40. U-shaped audiogram indicates...
Sensorineural hearing loss
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Frontal sinuses
Indicates conductive hearing loss