Outer Ear
The most common skin cancer that classically presents with slightly translucent or pearly plaque on the skin.
What is basal cell carcinoma?
What kind of tymp would you expect to see in someone with eustachian tube dysfunction?
What is a negative, type C tymp?
If the temporary threshold shift does not resolve within 12-36 hours of the exposure, what could potentially happen?
Brain disorder characterized by abnormal firing of clusters of nerve cells which results in unusual symptoms, behaviors, perceptions and motor activity. They experience seizures often.
What is epilepsy?
What type of hearing loss is typically associated with ototoxicity?
What is bilateral high-frequency SNHL?
The Outer Ear pathology seen as a fungal infection of the EAC, itching, pain, swelling, fungal filaments and spores.
What is otomycosis?
What kind and how much hearing loss a tympanic membrane perforation could cause.
What is a conductive HL up to 50dB
Your patient has episodic vertigo (drop attacks), nausea and vomiting. Has unilateral hearing loss in the low frequencies and experiencing low pitched tinnitus. What do you suspect they might have?
What is meniere's disease?
A pathology that presents with a variety of HL, extreme difficulty hearing in noise, distorted speech perception, present OAEs but no ABR response.
What is auditory neuropathy/desynchrony?
A patient wakes up with unilateral rapid onset hearing loss and is experiencing a popping sensation, aural fullness and vertigo. What is your diagnosis and intervention?
What is Sudden Sensorineural Hearing loss and a timely visit to the ENT in the hope that corticosteriods could reverse it.
A bony growth due to cold water exposure. There are often multiple growths and present bilaterally.
What are exostoses (surfers ear)?
Hallmark symptom is pulsatile tinnitus and reddish/blueish mass could be visible behind the TM.
What is a glomus tumor?
Inflammation of the meninges surrounding the brain and spinal cord. Timely evaluation is important because of potential for ossification of the cochlea.
What is meningitis?
What is an acoustic neuroma (vestibular schwannoma) and 1.) ABR 2.) OAE 3.) ART 4.) reflex decay
What is a collection of keratin producing squamous epithelial cells within the middle ear and what are the three types? (clinicians should be especially concerned if there is a TM perforation)
What is a cholesteatoma and 1.) congenital 2.) primary acquired and 3.) secondary acquired.
Absent or abnormally small pinna.
What is microtia?
metabolic bone-remodeling disease primarily impacting the otic capsule and ossicles... often presents in women after pregnancy.
What is otosclerosis?
The pathology seen with vertigo brought on by loud noises or straining, any type of HL, and increased auditory sensitivity
What is superior canal dehiscence syndrome?
What is central auditory processing disorder?
What anatomical structure is heavily myelinated and plays a major role in dichotic listening?
What is the corpus callosum?
What kind of audiologic management would you do for a child with aural atresia?
What is a bone conductive hearing aid?
Name 4 recommendations to help manage otitis media (any type).
What is antibiotics, spontaneous resolution, PE tubes, adenoidectomy, amplification (if needed)
Could cause bilateral SNHL because of the decrease in blood flow to the cochlea (specifically stria vascularis). There are three types
What is diabetes?
What is neurotoxicity/hyperbilirubinemia.
A common viral infection that affects many individuals and is often asymptomatic in healthy adults BUT it is a cause for concern particularly in pregnant women as the viral infection can be passed to the fetus and result in congenital hearing loss.
What is cytomegalovirus (CMV).