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Question 1

What is otalgia?

Answer 1

Ear pain

Question 2

Which facial nerves are related to numbness?

Answer 2

CN V, VII

Question 3

What is loudness recruitment?

Answer 3

When sounds become rapidly loud due to cochlear impairment

Question 4

What is impacted cerumen?

Answer 4

Earwax blocking the canal

Question 5

How do you call swimmer’s ear?

Answer 5

External otitis

Question 6

Perforated tympanic membrane

Answer 6

ruptured eardrum

Question 7

Osteomas is

Answer 7

benign outgrowths of bone

Question 8

Microtia is 

Answer 8

abnormal small/ deformed auricle

Question 9

Atresia is

Answer 9

Absent ear canal

Question 10

Impacted cerumen & ossicular discontinuity can lead to

Answer 10

up to 60 dB conductive HL

Question 11

Perforated tympanic membrane can lead to

Answer 11

Flat/ mild conductive hearing loss

But excellent WRS

Question 12

Treatment for perforated tympanic membrane

Answer 12

Tympanoplasty

Question 13

What is tympanometry?

Answer 13

Repair outer/inner layers

Question 14

What is the cause of otitis media?

Answer 14

ETD

Question 15

Otitis media can lead to

Answer 15

transient conductive HL in children

Question 16

What is otitis media?

Answer 16

Inflammation of the middle ear space

Question 17

Audiogram of otitis media

Answer 17

around 40 dB then flatter later (20dB) after 1K Hz

No masking at 2k, 4K Hz

Question 18

What is otosclerosis?

Answer 18

A bone disorder to the stapes & bony labyrinth

Question 19

Audiogram of otosclerosis

Answer 19

Carharts notch @ 2K Hz (minimized ABG)

Question 20

Tympanometry of otosclerosis

Answer 20

As

Question 21

Reflex of otosclerosis

Answer 21

Absent

Question 22

Otosclerosis is more in …..

Answer 22

Women

Question 23

Treatment of otosclerosis

Answer 23

stepedectomy (prothesis)

Question 24

What is cholesteatoma?

Answer 24

Sac of keratin tissue on the TM

Question 25

Cause of cholesteatoma

Answer 25

Chronic ear infections

Healed perforation

Question 26

What is mastoidectomy?

Answer 26

To remove all the middle ear anatomical structures along with the affected mastoid bone

Question 27

What causes mastoidectomy?

Answer 27

Chronic ear infections

Cholesteatoma

Question 28

Presbycusis is

Answer 28

age-induced HL

Question 29

Audiogram of presbycusis

Answer 29

Gradual decrease in high f

Question 30

Noise induced hearing loss is caused by

Answer 30

overexposure to loud sounds

Question 31

Audiogram of noise induced

Answer 31

Notch @4K

3K-6K

Question 32

Meniere’s disease is

Answer 32

a classic unilateral HL

Question 33

Symtoms of meniere’s disease

Answer 33

Vertigo 
Nausea 
Worse WRS 
Roaring tinnitus 
Aural fulness 
Fluctuating SNHL

Question 34

Audiogram of meniere’s disease

Answer 34

More severe in low frequencies but flatten over time

Question 35

Treatment for meniere’s disease

Answer 35

CI

Not good for hearing aids