Ethics
Billing a patient or insurance company for services that were not actually provided violates this ethical rule.
fraudulent billing
What is it called when the supervisor is physically present and observing the student?
Direct supervision.
What are the three most important sensory systems for balance?
Visual
Proprioceptive
Vestibular
What signal processing is used for cochlear implants?
Continuous Interleaved Sampling (CIS)
Resulting effects is greater than the sum of damages of each individual drug or agent.
synergistic
Medicare requires audiologic diagnostic testing to be ordered by this type of healthcare provider
Physician
What is it called when a supervisor demonstrates a clinical skill for the student?
Modeling
The semicircular canals are responsible for detecting what type of acceleration?
Angular acceleration
Patient expresses difficulty hearing soft speech due to hearing low level sounds. What should you first measure?
Thresholds
This drug, sodium thiosulfate, has been shown to reduce risks of ototoxic effects of cisplatin given during chemotherapy rounds
PEDMARK
For Medicare to reimburse audiologic testing, the service must meet this requirement, demonstrating the test is necessary for patient care.
medical necessity
What must always come first during student training?
Patient safety
Approximately what degree is the horizontal semi-circle canal tilted back?
30 degrees
Which TWO factors contribute directly to the selection of pediatric speech testing materials for CIs?
Language age and Speech recognition performance
In conjunction with this, cisplatin can be especially harmful for up to a year following treatment
noise or loud noise
Hearing aids, fittings, and related services are generally not covered under this federal health insurance program
Medicare
What type of feedback points out strengths and areas to improve?
Constructive feedback
This enlargement is located at one end of the semi-circular canal and houses the sensory epithelium responsible for detecting angular acceleration.
Ampulla
FDA approved criteria for cochlear implants in single-sided deafness are approved for two manufacturers. What is the minimum age in the approved criteria?
5 years
According to ASHA protocol, a change of this much at any ONE frequency constitutes a significant change in threshold. A decrease of this much at TWO ADJACENT
frequencies also meets such change threshold.
20 dB, 10 dB
An audiologist discusses a patient’s hearing test results loudly in a crowded waiting room. What is this a violation of?
patient confidentiality
What skill helps students think about what went well or what they could improve?
Self reflection
The semi-circular canals are in parallel planes of the eye muscles they stimulate. What eye muscles are stimulated by the posterior canal?
Superior and inferior obliques
What is the range of normal electrode impedances?
1 to 15 kOhm’s
One of the hallmark and first warning symptoms/signs that a drug is beginning to damage the auditory system
tinnitus