Intro

Question 1

What are some of the symptoms associated with ear complaints?

Answer 1

• otalgia
• ottorhea
• imbalance
• hearing loss
• tinnitus
• noise exposure
• previous ear surgery

Question 2

What are ototoxic drugs?

Answer 2

Aminoglycosides

Question 3

What allows us to check if the eardrum works?

Answer 3

Pneumatic otoscope

Question 4

Where is the eustachian tube orifice found?

Answer 4

In the nasopharynx

Question 5

What does rinne positive mean?

Answer 5

That the air conduction is better than the bone conduction

Question 6

What does rinne negative mean?

Answer 6

It means that the bone conduction is better than the air conduction

Question 7

The hearing tests that require patient response are known as?

Answer 7

subjective

Question 8

The hearing tests that do not require patients responses are known as:

Answer 8

objective

Question 9

What are the subjective tests for audiometry?

Answer 9

• pure tone audiogram

- speech audiometry

Question 10

What are the 3 objective tests of audiometry?

Answer 10

• impedance audiometry
• electric response audiometry
• otoaucostic emissions

Question 11

What 3 parts is the vestibule comprised of?

Answer 11

• The utricle
• The saccule
• The semicircular canals

Question 12

What contributes to proprioception?

Answer 12

• skin
• joints
• tendons
• ocular inputs
• vestibule

Question 13

What happens when the labyrinth is either destroyed or stimulated?

Answer 13

• Nausea
• vertigo
• nystagmus(involuntary eye movements)

Question 14

What are the different tests of the peripheral vestibular system?

Answer 14

• positional test
• fistula test
• caloric test
• rotation test

Question 15

What is the fistula test?

Answer 15

When you compress the tragus or you use the pneumatic otoscope and it causes vertigo and sometimes nystagmus

Question 16

How does the caloric test work?

Answer 16

It works with either cold water(30 degrees) or 44 degree(warm water) into the ear canal and stimulates the labyrinth. Nystagmus either occurs towards the ear or away
COWS- cold opposite warm same