Test Three Flashcards Preview

Audiology > Test Three > Flashcards

Flashcards in Test Three Deck (56)
Loading flashcards...
1
Q

Why do people fake a hearing loss

A

Money

Attention

2
Q

What happens if a patient is malingering

A

Stop testing
Document why
Don’t tell the patient

3
Q

What are some ways you can tell the patient is faking it

A

Bone conduction is worse
Involved in a lawsuit
Pure tone normal
But SRT is profound

4
Q

What is UNHS

A

Universal newborn hearing screening

5
Q

When do you perform the UNHS

A

Couple days after birth

6
Q

If the baby fails what happens

A

Refer to audiologist by three months

7
Q

What are the screeners

A

Pass or fail
ABR
OAE

8
Q

By three months if HL is confirmed what happens

A

Put with haring aids

9
Q

We want chip to develop hearing why

A

So they can develop speech and language

10
Q

What does congenital mean

A

Born with HL

11
Q

What does acquired mean

A

Loose in some other way

12
Q

What’s MRL

A

Minimal response level

13
Q

what’s EHDI

A

Early hearing detection intervention

14
Q

What’s JCIH

A

Joint committee on Infant Hearing

15
Q

What does the JCIH

A

Give us guidelines

16
Q

Babies with normal hearing turn toward sound

A

With non hearing and even mild babies they might not turn

17
Q

At age two if child has a hearing loss what do we do

A

Don’t speak at age two
Won’t respond to acoustic signals at threshold
Respond to sound they know they hear

18
Q

What are the minimal response levels

A

Respond to pure tones
Look toward sound
Cry
Jump

19
Q

If they aren’t hearing the sound

A

They won’t respond

20
Q

What is the APGAR test

A
Appearance 
Pulse 
Grimace 
Activity 
Respiration
21
Q

If they have a low APGAR score we should expect what

A

Suspected to have SNHL

22
Q

Why do we prefer OAEs

A

Quicker
Cost effective
Accurate results
Suit up with electrobes

23
Q

What are the down falls of OAEs

A

Enviroment had to be quiet
Insert doesn’t fit
Slightest sign will be a fail

24
Q

What is tympanomentry

A

Middle ear function
Confirm specific disorders
Tympanic membrane and oscials are Normal

25
Q

What is the eustation tube

A

Drains middle ear to throat

26
Q

What re the four types of behavioral testing

A

BOA
VRA
CPA
TROCA

27
Q

What does BOA stand for

A

Behavioral Observation Audiometry

28
Q

What does VRA stand for

A

Visual reinforcement Audiometry

29
Q

What is CPA

A

Conditional Play Audiometry

30
Q

What is TROCA

A

tangible reinforcement operant conditioning Audiometry

31
Q

What are some things about behavioral observation Audiometry

A
Observe behavior of child 
Birth-6mo 
Parent holds child little bit Hungary 
Sit in booth with speakers 
Plays tones and watches for baby to move startle stop sucking 
blink
32
Q

What are some things about the Visual response Audiometry

A
5-36mo
Reinforcement toy above speaker 
Condition head turning response 
Have to have another person in booth 
Bring to center w/ toys to distract them
33
Q

What are some things about the Conditional Play Audiometry

A
2 1\2 or above 
Voluntarily cooperate 
Toy in bucket or ring in tower
Emphasize listening 
Keep interested
34
Q

Why are some things about Tangible reinforcement operant conditioning Audiometry

A

Reinforcement tools that we use for children or adults of special population
Food
Token maybe
Visual issues

35
Q

What are the parts of the outter ear

A

Pinna

External auditory meadus

36
Q

What are some things about the pinna

A

Auricle
Funnel sound from outside into ear canal
Acoustic energy
Made of cartilage

37
Q

Pinna bends over to form what

A

Helix

38
Q

What is the top lobe

A

Antitragus

39
Q

What is the bowl of the ear and helps with localizing sound

A

Concha

40
Q

What is ear canal made of

A

Cartilage and bone

41
Q

What does the glands secrete oil to make and only happens in cartilage and not bone

A

Serum (wax)

42
Q

What is the three inner layer of the TM

A

Outter skin from ear canal
fibrous skin and connective tissue contribute to vibration
Inner closest to middle ear and mucus membrane

43
Q

What is the center of the fibrorous layer of the TM

A

Umbo

44
Q

What’s called the small pinna

A

Microtica

45
Q

What’s the absent pinna

A

Anotia

46
Q

What are some things about the eustation tube

A

Auditory tube

Opens when yawning sneezing swallowing

47
Q

What’s ET main function

A

Maintain pressure equal on both sides of TM

Excess fluid causes infection

48
Q

What are some things about the mastoid

A

Honey comb shape
Filled with air
Bone

49
Q

What is Ottis media

A

Middle ear infection

50
Q

Middle ear pressure due to what

A

Eustatian tube disfunction

51
Q

What does acute mean

A

Rapid development

52
Q

What does chronic mean

A

Long duration

53
Q

What is the treatment for otitis media

A

Antibiotics

54
Q

What is otosclerosis

A

Fusion of bones
Hereditary
White women
Formation of a new growth of spongy bone over the stapedus

55
Q

What is mastoiditis

A

Inflammation of mastoid

56
Q

What are other words for faking a hearing loss

A

Functional
Malingering
Nonorganic