ENT Flashcards
Most common cause of conductive hearing loss
Effusion
Keratinization of the epithelial cells in the middle ear
Cystic-like mass
Result of chronic suppurative otitis media or chronic Eustachian tube dysfunction
Develop behind mid anterior quadrant of TM
Dissolve bone and reach CNS
Cholesteatoma
Most common cause of sensorineural hearing loss
Congenital CMV
Sudden onset of bilateral sensorineural hearing loss
Viral labyrinthitis
Most common cause of acquired sensorineural hearing loss in childhood
Bacterial meningitis
Most common cause of acquired sensorineural hearing loss on childhood
Bacterial meningitis
Test the vestibulocochlear nerve’s response to sound
Auditory brainstorm response (ABR)
Test the hair cell function
Measures sounds that are made by the cochlea
Otoacoustic emissions (OAE)
Middle ear function
Response to change in air pressure
Tympanometry
Type A tympanogram
Normal
Type As tympanogram
Shallow amplitude
TM scarring
Otisclerosis
Ossicular fixation
Type Ad tympanogram
Higher amplitude
Ossicular disarticulation
Type B tympanogram
No peak, Flat line, Low amplitude
Stiff membrane
Middle ear fluid
Obstructed tympanostomy tube
High amplitude - continuity between middle and outer ear with perforated TM
Absence of pressure or mobility
Type C tympanogram
Left shifted peaked graph
Eustachian tube dysfunction
Conductive hearing loss is likely
Diagnostic criteria for acute otitis media
Best diagnostic test
Recent abrupt onset (< 48 hr)
Bulging TM with effusion
Erythema of TM
Pneumatic otoscopy
Most common bacterial for acute otitis media
Strep pneumo
H flu
Moraxella catarrhalis
GAS
Most common bacteria for acute otitis media
Purulent ear drainage for > 6 wk
Most common cause
Treatment
Chronic suppurative otitis media
Pseudomonas
Topical/otic ofloxacin
Treatment of choice for recurrent otitis media
Tympanostomy tubes
Antibiotic choose for otitis media
1) high dose Amoxicillin (90mg/kg/day)
2) Augmentin
3) ceftriaxone IM x 3 days
Pain with pinna manipulation
Usual cause
Otitis externa
Pseudomonas
Most common suppurative complication of acute otitis media
Postauricular swelling
Tender masotoid
Outwardly displaced pinna
Diagnostic test
Mastoiditis
CT and tympanocentesis
Self-limited vertigo
No vomiting or LOC
Nystagmus
1-4 yo
Strong family h/o migraines
Benign paroxysmal vertigo of childhood
Most common causes of rhinitis
Allergy
Sinusitis
Polyps
Cystic fibrosis
Foreign body
Causes of nasal polyps
Cystic fibrosis (most common)
Aspirin sensitivity
Asthma
Allergic rhinitis
Chronic/recurrent sinusitis
Cyanosis while feeding
Resolution with crying
Bilateral choanal atresia
Common bacteria of sinusitis
Pneumococcus
H flu
Moraxella
When sinuses develop
Maxillary
Ethmoid
Frontal
Sphenoid
Birth
Birth
5-6 years
5-6 years
Study of choice for chronic recurrent sinusitis
CT