Quiz5

Question 1

What are external ear structures?

Answer 1

Auricle, external auditory canal.

Question 2

What are the middle ear structures?

Answer 2

Ossicles (malleus, incus, stapes) Tympanic membrane

Question 3

What seperate the middle ear from the external ear?

Answer 3

Tympanic membrane

Question 4

What transmit sound from tympanic membrane to the inner ear?

Answer 4

Ossicles

Question 5

What are the inner ear structures?

Answer 5

Vestibule, semicircular canals, cochlea

Question 6

What transmits sound to the eight C.N. ?

Answer 6

Cochlea

Question 7

What part of the inner ear is involved in vestibular function?

Answer 7

Semicircular canals

Question 8

What are some gross assessments to evaluate auditory functions (limited diagnostic accuracy)

Answer 8

Response to questions, Whispered voice test, finger rustle test.

Question 9

For the Weber test what size tuning fork do you use?

Answer 9

512 Hz

Question 10

If a person hesitates during the Weber test it usually has means what?

Answer 10

They heard it equally well in both ears

Question 11

If they hear it well in both ears = normal = ?

Answer 11

Weber midline

Question 12

During the Webber test the patent hears it better in the left eat what does that mean?

Answer 12

Weber left

Question 13

If the sound lateralizes to one ear it’s either what to kinds of hearing loss?

Answer 13

Ipsilateral conductive or contralateral sensorineuronal

Question 14

What is the most common hearing loss?

Answer 14

Conductive

Question 15

What are some causes of conductive hearing loss?

Answer 15

Otosclerosis, foreign body, otitis media, cerumen impaction

Question 16

Where do you place the tuning ford for a rinse test?

Answer 16

On the mastoid

Question 17

If the air condition (part 2) is 2x longer as the bone conduction (part 1) the test is?

Answer 17

Normal

Question 18

If the bone conduction is better during their rinse test what does this mean?

Answer 18

Negative rinne test = suggests a conductive hearing loss

Question 19

When is conductive hearing loss most common?

Answer 19

Under 40

Question 20

When is sensorineuronal hearing loss most common?

Answer 20

Usually Over 40

Question 21

What are some causes of sensorineuronal hearing loss?

Answer 21

Presbycusis, anemias, hyperlipidemia, hypothyroidism, mumps

Question 22

When does the TM become conical ?

Answer 22

After first months of life

Question 23

How do you evaluate infatuated hearing ?>

Answer 23

Using sound stimuli

Question 24

When should you perform the otoscopic exam?

Answer 24

At the end of patient eval

Question 25

At what age should you use the rinne and Weber tests?

Answer 25

3

Question 26

When looking at at kids ear how should you pull the auricle?

Answer 26

Down

Question 27

What are you looking at when evaluating the external nose?

Answer 27

Bone, cartilage, nares

Question 28

What are the 4 sinus you check/?

Answer 28

Maxillary, frontal, ethmoid, sphenoid

Question 29

What are you looking for in the internal nose?

Answer 29

Septum, Choanae, turbinates, kiesselbach plexus, adenoids

Question 30

How do you evaluate their potency off nares?

Answer 30

Ask the patient to occlude one nostril while breathing in though the other (mouth closed)

Question 31

What do you look for ion the floor of the mouth?

Answer 31

Swelling, frenulum, sublingual ridge, Wharton duct

Question 32

How far back do you put the tongue blade?

Answer 32

No more than 1/2 way back

Question 33

What are the 5 t's when examining the oropharynx. ?

Answer 33

Tissues, teeth, tongue, tonsils, throat

Question 34

What are common ear abnormalities ?

Answer 34

Labyrinthitis, vertigo, acute otitis media, otosclerosis

Question 35

What are two common abnormalities in older adults?

Answer 35

Presbycusis, xerostomia

Question 36

What test evaluate equilibrium?

Answer 36

Romberg test

Question 37

If there is an implacable of equilibrium what test old you then do?

Answer 37

Nylon-Barney test

Question 38

What are ectopic sebaceous glands that appear in the buccaneers mucosa and lips as numerous small, yellow-white raised regions

Answer 38

Fordyce spots

Question 39

What condition is associated by water retained in the ear canal that causes tissue mace ration, desqumamation

Answer 39

Otitis externa

Question 40

What condition is associated with a red canal, edematous, watery discharge then purulent and thick ?

Answer 40

Otitis externa

Question 41

What eat condition is associated with intense pain with movement of the pinna or chewing?

Answer 41

Otitis externa

Question 42

What ear condition is assaulted with discomfort and a feeling of fullness?

Answer 42

Otitis media with effusion

Question 43

What ear condition is associated with deep seated earache that interferes with activity or sleep?

Answer 43

Acute otitis media

Question 44

Which ear condition has no discharge ?

Answer 44

Otitis media with effusion

Question 45

What ear condition is associated with sticking or cracking sound on yawning or swelling, no signs of dizziness?

Answer 45

Otitis media with effusion

Question 46

What ear condition is associated with an abrupt onset, fever, feeling of blockage, anorexia, irritability ?

Answer 46

Acute otitis media

Question 47

What ear condition is associated with a tympanic membrane retracted or bulging, impaired nobility, yellowish, air fluid level and or bubbles ?

Answer 47

Otitis media with effusion

Question 48

What ear condition is trapped epithelial tissue behind the tympanic membrane that is often the result of untreated or chronic otitis media ?

Answer 48

Cholesteatoma

Question 49

Loss of high frequency sounds is associated with what type of hearing loss?

Answer 49

Sensorineural hearing loss

Question 50

What is a disorder of progressive hearing loss that in some causes is hereditary?

Answer 50

Meniere disease

Question 51

What is the illusion of rotational movement by a patent often due to a disorder of the inner eat?

Answer 51

Vertigo

Question 52

What are some organisms that cause acute pharyngitis?

Answer 52

N. Gomorrhea, mycoplasma pneumoiae

Question 53

What gland becomes inflamed In a peritonsillar access?

Answer 53

WEBER

Question 54

What is a life threaten infection in the lateral pharyngeal space that has the potential occlude the airway? MC in children?

Answer 54

Retro pharyngeal abcess