Audiology 201
The intensity level that the patient can first DETECT the presence of speech.
What is the SAT (speech awareness threshold)?
Chemotherapy and/or aminoglycosides antibiotic treatments often cause this type of hearing loss.
What is high frequency sensorineural hearing loss?
VNG assesses 2, vHIT assesses 6
What are semi-circular canals?
SRTs = PTAs
What is speech reception thresholds equal puretone averages?
A condition with primarily conductive hearing loss, no air-bone gap at 2000Hz, and a stiff tympanogram.
What is otosclerosis? *
A condition in which a person has difficulty processing auditory information in the brain.
What is auditory processing disorder?
Cisplatin may adversely affect the function of these cochlear hair cells.
What are outer hair cells? *
VNG assesses these canals
What are the lateral canals?
Normal tympanometry, normal acoustic reflexes, normal OAEs, and profound behavioral hearing loss.
What is functional hearing loss?
Saw-tooth pattern depicting eye movement.
What is nystagmus?
When enough masking is too much masking.
What is the masking dilemma?*
Prematurity, NICU stay, ototoxic med exposure.
What are risk factors for developing hearing loss?
With vHIT testing, RALP assesses these
What are Right Anterior and Left Posterior?
Process of checking whether speech testing results match puretone results.
What is cross-checking?
Abnormal gaze, tracking, and saccade testing.
What VNG findings suggest central pathology?
The intensity level noted on the audiogram where the patient may feel the vibration from the stimulus rather than hear it.
What is the vibro-tactile line?
A mixed hearing loss can be the result of this type of cancer treatment.
What is radiation therapy?
With vHIT testing, LARP assesses these.
What are Left Anterior and Right Posterior?
The type of functional hearing loss where a patient is unaware that they are simulating a hearing loss—they believe they have a hearing loss.
What is Conversion Deafness Disorder?
Syndrome associated with thryoid, EVA, hearing loss
What is Pendred Syndrome
Right unilateral high frequency SNHL, normal tymps, right absent acoustic reflexes, present OAEs
What is retrocochlear pathology?
When both ABR and OAE are performed on NICU babies.
What is dual screening?
Corrective eye movements
What are saccades?*
Jamie's favorite Avenger
Who is Thor?
Where the Warriors Three live.
What is Asgard?