Lecture 21 - Ear Disease and Hearing Loss

Question 1

Hearing loss types?

Answer 1

conductive, sensorineural (inner ear), mixed, central disorders

Question 2

Hearing loss leads to?

Answer 2

social isolation, endangerment, loss in seech, language, learning, auditory processing and employment

Question 3

Process of diagnosing hearing issue?

Answer 3

air conduction audiogram -> MRI -> CT

Question 4

Ear canal conductive deafness?

Answer 4

congenital, acquired (trauma)

Question 5

Middle ear conductive deafness?

Answer 5

inflammatory, metabolic, congenital, tumour, trauma

Question 6

Diagnosis conductive deafness?

Answer 6

air bone gap, Rinne -ve, Weber refered to deaf ear, low compliance tympanogram, absent reflexes

Question 7

Blue ear?

Answer 7

otitis media w effusion (linked to mastoiditis)

Question 8

Congenital causes of sensorineural hearing loss?

Answer 8

heriditary, heriditary delayed onset, acquired (birth trauma)

Question 9

Acquired causes of sensorineural hearing loss?

Answer 9

noise, trauma, drugs, infection

Question 10

Diagnosis sensorineual deafness?

Answer 10

no air-bone gap, rinne +ve, Weber referred to better ear, normal tympanogram

Question 11

Differentiating nerual deficit rather than cochlear?

Answer 11

poor discrimination, reflex decay, not a progressive decline amongst different tones

Question 12

Taking auditory history?

Answer 12

age, severity, onset, duration, trauma, drugs, family history (tinnitus, vertigo)