Pediatrics
The three goals of the EDHI program.
What is screen by 1 month of age, diagnose by 3 months of age, and treat by 6 months of age?
Steady state noise is considered hazardous at ______ dB and impulse noise is considered hazardous at ______ dB.
What is 85 dBA and 140 dBA?
The presence of OAEs rules out all degrees of hearing loss except for two.
What are slight and mild?
Hearing aids have four main components.
What is the microphone, amplifier, receiver, and battery?
The process of determining a patient's diagnosis from two or more different disorders that have similar characteristics or sympotms.
What is differential diagnosis?
The behavioral test method most appropriate for a child between ~6 months and 2 years of age (developmental age of 8 months).
What is Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA)?
The inverse relationship between noise level and time of exposure.
Time-intensity trade-off
Out of the two available newborn hearing screening methods, this is the best option to rule out ANSD.
What is the ABR?
The style of hearing aid most appropriate for pediatric patients
Behind-the-ear
The audiologic test most appropriate for patient's with WR rollover.
What is acoustic reflex decay?
Despite a child's age and behavioral test method used, the audiologist must always try to obtain ___________ information.
What is ear-specific?
The two neurological structures responsible for the perception of bothersome tinnitus.
What are the limbic and autonomic nervous sytem?
The auditory condition characterized by low-frequency and fluctuacting sensorineural hearing loss, roaring tinnitus, aural fullness, and acute, episodic vertigo lasting at least 20 minutes at a time.
What is Meniere's disease?
The audiologic hearing aid candidacy for adults.
What is documented hearing loss, >60% word recognition performance, and <80% SII?
The hearing sensitivity associated with CAPD.
What is normal hearing sensitivity?
The ideal stimulus to test children in the sound field to avoid standing waves is
What are warble tones?
Cochlear function in patients with tinnitus is often _______, where as cochlear function in patients with hyperacusis is often _________.
What is abnormal and normal?
The subtest of the VNG test battery responsible for assessing the horizontal semicircular canal.
What is caloric testing?
The hearing aid option most appropriate for patients with fine motor and dexterity problems.
What is the ITE?
The pathology that results in normal tympanometry, absent acoustic reflexes, absent OAEs, and conductive hearing loss
What is otosclerosis?
The auditory condition that results in normal tympanometry, absent acoustic reflexes, present OAEs, and absent ABR.
What is Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder (ANSD)?
The 5 common factors that lead to presbycusis.
What are noise exposure, age-related changes in the auditory system, medications, genetics, and medical conditions.
What is Wave V and 10 dB?
The public health consequence that results in untreated or under-treated hearing loss.
What is cogntive decline and dementia>
Poor WR performance with present OAEs aid in the diagnosis of this type of hearing loss.