Hearing loss
The type of hearing loss you have depends on?
What part of your ear is affected
It is a device that is implanted to provide a modified sense of sound.
What is a cochlear implant?
Trauma to the external ear by using q-tips or hairpins to clean the ear may result in this problem
What is external otitis (swimmer's ear)?
This transmits sounds between the external auditory canal and the middle ear
What is tympanic membrane (eardrum)?
Presbycusis is also known as
What is Hearing loss due to aging?
What are 3 drug categories that are known to cause damage to CN VIII, therefore causing hearing loss.
What are: Aspiring, some antibiotics (erythromycin, vancomycin), loop diuretics, NSAIDS, antimalarial agents, some chemotherapy drugs?
This is a small electronic device that you wear in or behind your ear to amplify sound so someone can hear better.
What is a hearing aid?
This is the standard measure of frequency.
What is hertz?
The tympanic membrane should be this color
What is pearl-gray?
Ringing of the ears is also known as
What is Tinnitus?
This happens after inner ear damage or problems with the nerve pathways from your inner ear to your brain.
What is sensorineural hearing loss?
This is when you should first get a hearing aid
What is when you can no longer hear between 30-40 dB?
Decibels are a measure of this
What is how loud something is/Loudness?
This part of the ear contains the smallest bones in the body
What is middle ear?
Two hearing assessment differences in the aged are
What is: increased hair growth in ear, thicker drier cerumen, atrophic tympanic membranes etc? p. 378
The type of hearing loss that occurs if someone has atrophic changes to the tympanic membrane
What is conductive hearing loss? p. 378
The test quantifies hearing loss
What is pure-tone audiometry?
ASL is an acronym for
What is American sign language?
This cranial nerve can be damaged by chronic ear infections or trauma and lead to problems with taste
What is Cranial nerve VII?
Slow motor responses in the elderly could be due to this part of the ear
What are vestibular structures?
This is the range of decibels where you would be considered to have moderate hearing loss
What is 40-60dB?
The test that compares hearing by bone conduction and air conduction
What is the Rinne tests?
True or False: Hearing impairment only affects your hearing
What is No, hearing impairment can also affect your speech and communication?
The Cranial nerve of the middle ear which transports sounds to the temporal lobe of the brain to process sound
What is cranial nerve VIII (vestibulocochlear)?
True or false: The aged may have decreased sensitivity to loud sounds
What is false? Gerontologic assessments show that they have more difficulty hearing in a noisy environment, and heightened sensitivity to loud sounds