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For which of the following instruments/apparatus do national standards or uniform performance standards for calibration exist?
Pure-tone audiometers
Which of the following is MOST likely to cause a conductive hearing loss?
Otitis media
Which of these is MOST likely to cause a sensorineural hearing loss?
Ménière’s disease
Which of the following is NOT a true statement about conductive and sensorineural hearing losses?
Conductive loss does not affect threshold levels
What is the name of a joint federal- and state-funded program which provides medical care to low-income and medically needy individuals?
Medicaid
A client/patient is seen in a clinic because they are having trouble removing their CIC hearing aid. Which of the following is the best modification to the hearing aid?
Increase the length of their removal line
When senior citizens fall, it is often related t balance problems. The CDC finds that a senior citizen receives emergency room treatment every:
23 minutes
57 seconds
18 seconds
16 18 minutes
18 seconds
Without the middle ear, if the sound were to reach the inner ear, to the hearer it would be
virtually nonexistent
Which of the following assessments best determines the integrity of the inferior branch of the vestibular nerve?
1. Caloric test
2. cVEMP
3. oVEMP
4. Rotatroy chair
cVEMP
Modifying an earmold in which area will make the greatest effect to the acoustics of the device?
shortening the canal
A patient fitted with hearing aids for the first time returned for a two week-follow-up appointment. The patient reports feeling uncomfortable when doors slam. Which of the following strategies is most appropriate for addressing the patient's complaint?
1. Using the expansion
2. Decresaing the output compression threshold
3. Decreasing the input compression ratio
4. Incresaing the input compression threshold
Decresaing the output compression threshold
Which of the following is typically the best choice of amplification for a person with bilateral moderate conductive hearing loss and chronic drainage from both ears?
1. BTE with vented earmolds
2. BAHA
3. Cochlear implant
BAHA
Which of the following is most important to review with the client/patient during a hearing aid orientation?
how to insert and remove the device
The middle ear is classified as which kind(s) of the device(s)?
Both of these
A patient fitted with hearing aids for the first time returned for a two week-follow-up appointment. The patient reports feeling uncomfortable when doors slam. Which of the following is the most likely cause for the patient's complaints?
1. The MPO is set too high.
2. The dynamic range of the hearing aid s too narrow
3. The patient is experiencing the occlison effect
4. The attack and realse times are too fast
The MPO is set too high.
A child comes to the clinic due to problems understanding the teacher at school. The child has moderate hearing loss and wears bilateral hearing aids. Aided speech-recognition scores at 55 dB HL in quiet were 88% correct, with scores being 60 % correct with +5 SNR. Which of the following would be the best recommendation for the child?
1. Increase the gain of the hearing aid
2. Utilize directional microphones with the hearing aids
3. Utilize a personal frequency modulation (FM) system with hearing aids
4. Utilize a low-gain frequency modulation (FM) system with headphones
Refer to cochlear implant evaluation.
Utilize a personal frequency modulation (FM) system with hearing aids
Caloric test is designed to stimulate which of the following structures?
The lateral semicircular canal
The outer ear is classified as which kind of device?
Acoustic
Which of the following is correct regarding insurance coverage of hearing aids?
1. medicare always covers hearing aids for children and adults
2. medicare is required to cover hearing aids for children and adults
3. medicare must cover child hearing aids and often can cover adults
Medicare must cover child hearing aids and often can cover adults
The CDC reports that a senior citizen dies as the result of falling every:
45 minutes
35 minutes
25 minutes
15 minutes
35 minutes
In the measurement of real-ear sound-pressure levels with a probe-tube microphone system, insufficient prob-tube depth tends to:
1. Increase the high-frequency response
2. Decrease the high-frequency response
3. Decrease the low-frequency response
4. Increase the low-frequency response
Decrease the high-frequency response
Nystagmus that is vertical in nature, direction changing and failure of fixation are connected to which kind of balance problem?
Peripheral
Nystagmus that is vertical in nature, direction changing and failure of fixation are connected to which kind of balance problem?
Peripheral
Central
Central
Caloric weakness on the side of stimulation correlates to site of lesion on that same side.
True
False
True
Which of the following always applies to to nystagmus caused by a labyrinthine lesion?
1. It is right-beating on right gaze and left-beating on left gaze
2. It is pendular when the eyes are closed
3. It is enhanced with eyes open
4. It is up-beating on up gaze and down-beating on down gaze
5. It is suppressed by visual fixation
It is suppressed by visual fixation
The inner ear is classified as which kind(s) of the device(s)?
All of the above