Basic Audiometry
Amp 1
Neurophysiology
Clinical Skills
Audiology Fun Facts
100

The IA for bone conduction

What is 0 dB?

100

Receiver, microphone, telecoil

What are transducers?

100

The part of the basilar membrane tuned to low frequencies

What is the apical end of the basilar membrane?

100

The first test you should do in any audiology appointment

What is otoscopy?

100

An audiology YouTuber who is all about Best Practices

Who is Dr Cliff, AuD?

200

When thresholds increase 5 dB when any noise is presented in the NTE, even if cross-hearing is not possible

What is central masking?

200

The best earmold material for a person with very thin skin

What is acrylic?

200

The equation to calculate dB from pressure

What is dB=20log(p/p0)?

200

The test you should use for a suspected nonorganic unilateral hearing loss

What is the Stenger test?

200

These two associations offer certification and set the standards for audiology practice in the US

What are AAA and ASHA?

300

The three requirements to use Yacullo's simplified approach

What are no ABG's, good PTA/SRT agreement, and moderate presentation level re:SRT?

300

The FDA Red Flags (name 4)

What are visible congenital/traumatic deformity, pain, drainage, sudden hearing loss in the last 90 days, dizziness, ABG >10 dB at 500, 1000, and 2000 Hz, unilateral hearing loss, cerumen impaction/foreign body in the canal?

300

The 4 phases of an action potential (with action/membrane potential)

1. Resting | Na+/K+ pump | -70 mV

2. Depolarization | Na+ in | increases

3. Repolarization | K+ out | decreases

4. Hyperpolarization |K+ out | decreases below resting

300

The gain setting to test equivalent input noise, total harmonic distortion, frequency response curve, and battery drain

What is reference test gain?

300

Mild hearing loss increases your risk by 20%, moderate by 30%, and severe by 50%

What is dementia?

400

The bone conduction mechanisms for the outer, middle, and inner ear, respectively

What are osseotympanic, inertial, and compressional/distortional?

400

The gold standard for hearing aid microphones

What are electrets/or MEMs?

400

This olive encodes ITDs using excitatory input from both ipsilateral and contralateral sides

What is the MSO?

400

The steps to a good ear impression for a custom hearing aid

What are: visualize, place oto-block, visualize again, mix material and syringe smoothly without cake decorating, mark horizontal, allow to cure, remove by twisting forward, visualize again, document

400

The year the AuD became the entry-level degree to practice audiology in the US

What is 2007?

500

Using the mid-masking approach and inserts, what is the masking level for a presentation level of 70 dB with thresholds of 10 dB in the NTE and 40 dB (best threshold) in the test ear? (Assume no ABGs)

What is 52.5 dB?

500

The plumbing modifications that affect high, mid-, and low frequencies, respectively

What are sound bore/canal length, dampers, and venting?

500

The shape of these is influenced by the strength of inhibition at high SPLs

What are rate-level tuning curves?

500

Site of lesion for this reflex pattern:

R contra: WNL

R ipsi: WNL/elevated

L contra: Absent

L ipsi: WNL

What is the SOC & VII nucleus?

500

250 points: the cough reflex in our ear

500 points: the nerve stimulated that triggers this reflex

Double Jeopardy: the specific branch of the nerve

What is the Arnold reflex?

What is the vagus nerve?

What is the Alderman branch?