Final

Question 1

Negative emotions triggered by specific sounds

Answer 1

Misophonia

Question 2

Collapse of loudness tolerance with or without accompanying hearing loss

Answer 2

Hyperacusis

Question 3

For an adult you start with what frequency and intensity for audiological testing?

Answer 3

Frequency: 1000 Hz
Intensity: 30 dBHL

Question 4

if there is a response in the first tone presented what level do you test the test tone?

Answer 4

drop 10 dBHL

Question 5

If there is no response to the initial 30 dBHL presentation, what level do you test next?

Answer 5

50 dBHL

Question 6

How do you find the threshold in audiology testing?

Answer 6

Lowest level a patient responds correctly to 2 ascending tones

Question 7

What are the frequencies for AC testing?

Answer 7

1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 6000, 8000, 500, 250 Hz for adults

Question 8

What are the frequencies for BC testing?

Answer 8

1000, 2000, 4000, 500 Hz for adults

Question 9

What frequencies are extra if there is more than 10 dBHL difference?

Answer 9

750 and 1500 Hz

Question 10

How do you find the PTA?

Answer 10

(500 + 1000 + 2000 Hz)/3

Question 11

What test uses spondees (two-syllable words)?

Answer 11

SRT

Question 12

What test uses PB word lists (i.e., phonetically balanced monosyllabic words)?

Answer 12

WRA

Question 13

What level do you test WRA?

Answer 13

Normal hearing +30 from SRT
Hearing loss +40 from SRT

Question 14

What level do you screen hearing for children?

Answer 14

20 dBHL

Question 15

What level do you screen hearing for adults?

Answer 15

25 dBHL

Question 16

What frequencies do you screen during a hearing screening?

Answer 16

1000, 2000, 4000 Hz

Question 17

What does BOA standfor?

Answer 17

Behavioral observation audiometry (watching baby respond to sounds)

Question 18

What does VRA stand for?

Answer 18

Visual reinforcement audiometry

Question 19

What is the frequency order for testing pediatrics in the sound booth?

Answer 19

2000, 500, 1000, 4000 Hz

Question 20

What is the stimulus for SAT?

Answer 20

cold running speech

Question 21

What is the carrier phrase for the WRA/NuChips?

Answer 21

Say the word…

Question 22

WIPI/NuChips are picture cards used for what assessment?

Answer 22

WRA

Question 23

What type of Tymp?
Normal ME function, no fluid, no perf, no tube

Answer 23

Type A

Question 24

What type of Tymp?
TM compliant but pressure in ear canal is negative

Answer 24

Type C

Question 25

What type of Tymp? High amplitude, hyperflaccid

Answer 25

Type Ad

Question 26

What type of Tymp? No movement of eardrum

Answer 26

Type B

Question 27

What type of Tymp? Stiff/shallow peak

Answer 27

Type As

Question 28

What type of Tymp would you expect with a patent PE tube?

Answer 28

Type B w/ large ECV

Question 29

What type of Tymp would you expect with disarticulated ossicles?

Answer 29

Type Ad

Question 30

What type of Tymp would you expect with otosclerosis?

Answer 30

Type As

Question 31

What type of Tymp would you expect with a perforation in the eardrum?

Answer 31

Type B w/ large ECV

Question 32

What type of Tymp would you expect with a middle ear infection?

Answer 32

Type B w/ normal ECV

Question 33

What type of Tymp would you expect with eustachian tube dysfunction?

Answer 33

Type C

Question 34

When did newborn hearing screenings become mandated?

Answer 34

1999

Question 35

Fungal ear infection

Answer 35

Otomycosis

Question 36

Birth defect where external ear is small or abnormally formed?

Answer 36

Microtia

Question 37

No external ear

Answer 37

Anotia

Question 38

Extreme narrowing of the ear canal

Answer 38

Stenosis

Question 39

No ear canal

Answer 39

Atresia

Question 40

Mucous otitis media, thick

Answer 40

glue ear

Question 41

pseudo tumor made of squamous cells, skin from external ear canal

Answer 41

chollesteatoma

Question 42

infected mastoid

Answer 42

mastoiditis

Question 43

spongy bony growth on footplate of stapes

Answer 43

otosclerosis fix with spadectomy or stapedotomy

Question 44

scarring of the tympanic membrane

Answer 44

tympanosclerosis

Question 45

disease from cat litter mishandling or contaminated meat

Answer 45

toxoplasmosis

Question 46

virus that can cause sensorineural loss at birth or progressive loss

Answer 46

cytomegalovirus

Question 47

baby is Rh positive, mom is Rh negative Causes damage to RBC and cannot carry O2

Answer 47

Rh incompatibility

Question 48

German measles

Answer 48

rubella

Question 49

oxygen deprivation

Answer 49

anoxia

Question 50

main development of cochlea occurs at what week gestation?

Answer 50

6 weeks

Question 51

main development of organ of corti occurs at what week gestation?

Answer 51

12 weeks

Question 52

what can cause sudden idiopathic hearing loss?

Answer 52

Virus, tumor, immune disease have 72 hours of onset to fix

Question 53

over secretion or under absorption of endolymph in scala media and semicircular canals Sx: fullness in one ear, vertigo, roaring tinnitus

Answer 53

Meniere's disease

Question 54

hearing loss due to age

Answer 54

presbycusis

Question 55

what range is most susceptible to noise exposure?

Answer 55

3-6 kHz range

Question 56

syndrome where patients have hearing loss and kidney dysfunction

Answer 56

alport syndrome

Question 57

syndrome with visible attributes such as white forelock, wide eyes, bright blue eyes or different color eyes

Answer 57

Waardenburg syndrome

Question 58

syndrome where patients have hearing loss and thyroid dysfunction, they often have enlarged vestibular aqueducts too

Answer 58

Pendred syndrome

Question 59

syndrome where patients have hearing and vision loss

Answer 59

Usher syndrome

Question 60

syndrome where patients have tags/pits in front of their pinnas, hearing loss, and kidney dysfunction

Answer 60

BOR (brachio oto renal syndrome)