Ear Disease

Question 1

What frequency of tuning fork is used as a simple test?

Answer 1

512

Question 2

Where is the tuning fork usually placed?

Answer 2

Mastoid process (behind the ear)

Question 3

What is the tuning fork test called?

Answer 3

Rennes test

Question 4

What is the Wevver test?

Answer 4

Tuning fork placed on forehead centre, ask what ear they hear it best in

Question 5

What test involves air conduction?

Answer 5

PTA

Question 6

What test puts air in the patients ear?

Answer 6

Tympanogram

Question 7

What is used to examine the ear?

Answer 7

Otoendoscopy

Question 8

What are the symptoms of ear disease?

Answer 8

Deafness
Discomfort
Discharge
DIzziness
DIn DIn (tinitis)
Defective movement of face

Question 9

What types of deafness can you have?

Answer 9

Conductive
Sensorineural
Mixed
Central

Question 10

What nerves can cause earache?

Answer 10

V
VII
IX
X
C2, C3

Question 11

What’s the most common cause of earache?

Answer 11

Referred pain e.g. tonsilitis

Question 12

What is another name for ear discharge?

Answer 12

Otorrhoea

Question 13

What in the ear can leak?

Answer 13

AOM
COM
CSF

Question 14

What is vertigo?

Answer 14

Dizziness

Question 15

What types of dizziness can someone suffer from?

Answer 15

Central or peripheral

This can be w/wo hearing loss

Question 16

What is Din Din aka Tinnitus?

Answer 16

Sound of silence

Question 17

Where could you find a congenital cholesteatoma?

Answer 17

behind an intact ear drum