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| To obtain background info, describe primary problem, opportunity to provide related info |
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| Ringing or noises in the ear |
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| Associated with a conductive hearing loss |
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| Associated with a SN hearing loss |
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| Difficulty understanding speech |
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| Bilateral, high frequency, SN hearing loss |
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| Bilateral, high frequency, SN hearing loss |
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| Indicates a medical problem and that warrants a medical referral |
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| Person spinning around the room |
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| History of ear infections |
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| possible conductive hearing loss, find out if they have ever had tubes |
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| History of hearing aids in the family |
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| May indicate a SN hearing loss |
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| If the infant is not making sounds |
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| May indicate a hearing loss |
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| Age that a toddler should know body parts |
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| Test used to assess the health of a newborn, 7 and above considered normal |
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| Examination of the ears with the otoscope |
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| Pure tones, complex tones, noise |
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| Purpose of pure tone testing |
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| To obtain threshold for pure tones |
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| periodic sound composed of one frequency |
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| Lowest intensity/decibel level that an acoustic stimulus can be detected 50% of the time |
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| An acoustically treated room used for hearing testing and research |
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| prevent sounds from entering |
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| Suppress echoes/reverberation |
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| playing noise in the good ear so it can't hear for the poor ear |
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| Instrument used to test hearing |
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| Controls the frequency of the pure tone |
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| Controls the intensity of the stimulus |
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| Allows the tester to talk to the patient |
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| Allows the patient to talk to the tester |
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| Controls stimulus selection (pure tone, speech/microphone, cd, noise) |
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| Control hos the input is delivered to the patient (earphones, bone oscillator, speakers) |
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| Used to select the right, left, or both ears |
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| Graph used for recording/plotting hearing test results |
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| Which test is performed first? |
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| Air Conduction-done using earphones |
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| When is bone conduction done? |
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| Only if the patient's AC thresholds are out of normal range |
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| What is the reason for testing BC? |
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| Identifies the "type" of hearing loss |
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| IE-energy sets the entire skull into vibration |
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| Order for AC frequencies when testing |
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| 1k, 2k, 3k, 4k, 6k, 8k, retest 1k, 500, 250 |
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| Test order for BC frequencies |
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| 1k, 2k, 3k, 4k, retest 1k, 400, 250 |
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| Should be varied but not shorter than the SI-vary so that the patient doesn't catch on to patterns-how long you wait to play the next tone |
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| Average of the AC thresholds at 500, 1k, and 2k. This is compared to the Speech Recognition Threshold |
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| Suspect a malingerer/fake when.... |
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| The difference between the PTA and the SRT is larger than 10 dB |
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| Test 750 and 1500 when... |
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| There is a 20dB or greater difference in thresholds between octaves |
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| There is a hearing loss at 250Hz |
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| When a patient responds to a pure tone you? |
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| Decrease the intensity by 10dB |
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| When a patient does not respond to a pure tone you? |
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| Increase the intensity by 5dB |
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| Threshold is obtained when? |
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| The patient responds 2 times at the same intensity level when ascending in intensity |
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| AC thresholds out of the normal range and bone conduction thresholds in the normal range with air-bone gaps |
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| Greater than 10dB difference between the AC and BC threshold at any frequency |
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| Which parts of the ear does a conductive hearing loss effect? |
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| Outer and Middle, inner is normal |
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| Case History Clues for Conductive |
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| Low pitch tinnitus or buzzing, ears feel plugged, history of ear infections |
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| Audiogram Characteristics for Conductive |
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| Hearing is poorer for the lower frequencies and there is an upward sloping configuration to better hearing in the higher frequencies, can be unilateral or bilateral |
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| Treatment for Conductive Hearing Loss |
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| Medically or surgically correctable. Typically not permanent |
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| Largest Conductive hearing loss |
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| Sensori-Neural Hearing Loss |
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| Air and bone conduction out of the normal range without ABGs-affects the inner ear |
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| Case History Clues for SN |
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| High pitch tinnitus, difficulty understanding speech, especially in noisy situations, history of noise exposure |
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| Audiogram Characteristics for SN |
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| Typically better hearing for the lower frequencies with a downward sloping configuration to a loss for the higherfrequencies |
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| Permanent and cannot be treated medically or surgically. Correctable with the use of hearing aids |
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| Air and bone conduction thresholds out of the normal range with ABGs |
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| Audiogram Characteristics for Mixed |
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| Typically affects all the frequencies with a flat configuration |
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| First fix the conductive part and then have the patient return to get hearing aids |
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| Retro-cochlear hearing loss |
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| Beyond the cochlea-tumors of the 8th nerve or nuclei pathways in the CANs. |
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| Moderately-Severe Hearing Loss |
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| Unit of measure of intensity |
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| Logarithm of a ratio multiplied by a constant-may be expressed in terms of sound power or sound pressure |
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| smallest power or pressure it takes to move the tympanic membrane |
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| 10 to the negative 16th watts per cm squared |
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| .0002 dynes per cm squared |
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| When to use Clinical Masking |
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| Whenever you are faced with an ABG, that is, when faced with a conductive or mixed hearing loss |
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| Ear getting the pure tone |
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| The ear getting the making noise |
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| Reception of the pure tone in the te caused by the cochlea in the opposite ear crossing over the head |
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| amount of sound energy the skull can absorbed before bone conduction becomes active |
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