HEENT Exam QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS | 2026 UPDATE | WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS ||Brand New
Exam!!Actual Questions!!
Otitis media - ANSWER-Middle ear infection
Sensorineural hearing loss
Causes? - ANSWER-Problem in the inner ear (cochlear nerve, neuronal transmission
into brain)
Causes
- Loud noise exposure (>85 dB)
- Inner ear infections
- Trauma
- Tumors
- Congenital
- Aging
Conductive hearing loss
Causes? - ANSWER-External or middle ear disorder impairs sounds conduction into
brain
- You can still hear through the bone b/c it transmits directly to the cochlea (avoids the
outer/middle ear)
Causes
- Foreign body
- Otitis media
- Perforated eardrum
- Otosclerosis of ossicles
Vermillion border - ANSWER-Line between lips and face skin
Isthmus - ANSWER-The middle of the thyroid's lobes
Normal HEAD exam example (charting) - ANSWER-- NC/AT
(normocephalic/atraumatic)
- Non-tender to palpation at lymph nodes.
, Normal EYE exam example (charting) - ANSWER-- Visual acuity 20/20 B/L
- Field of vision good
- EOMI
- Sclera white, Conjunctiva Pink
- PERRLA
- Disc margins sharp
- No hemorrhages or exudates
Normal EAR exam example
(charting) - ANSWER-- Acuity good to finger rubbing
- Weber midline
- AC>BC
- TM's with good cone of light
Normal NOSE exam example (charting) - ANSWER-- Nasal mucosa pink
- Septum midline
- No sinus tenderness
Normal THROAT exam example (charting) - ANSWER-- Trachea midline
- Thyroid symmetric, not enlarged, no palpable nodules
- Neck supple
Patulous - ANSWER-Eustachian tube dysfunction
- Tube won't close
Opposite of dilatory
Dilatory - ANSWER-Eustachian tube dysfunction
- Tube won't DILATE
- Can't equalize pressure in head
What can you see on otoscopic exam? - ANSWER-- Tympanic membrane
- Cone of light
- Incus
- Malleus
- Umbo (foot of malleus)
What is the most common sense lost due to nerve damage? - ANSWER-Hearing!
Weber test - ANSWER-256 Hz tuning fork
- Testing for relative hearing between L/R ears
- Vibrate and put on top of pt's skull, midline
- + result = hear equally loud in both ears
- - resuls = lateralizes to one ear
ANSWERS | 2026 UPDATE | WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS ||Brand New
Exam!!Actual Questions!!
Otitis media - ANSWER-Middle ear infection
Sensorineural hearing loss
Causes? - ANSWER-Problem in the inner ear (cochlear nerve, neuronal transmission
into brain)
Causes
- Loud noise exposure (>85 dB)
- Inner ear infections
- Trauma
- Tumors
- Congenital
- Aging
Conductive hearing loss
Causes? - ANSWER-External or middle ear disorder impairs sounds conduction into
brain
- You can still hear through the bone b/c it transmits directly to the cochlea (avoids the
outer/middle ear)
Causes
- Foreign body
- Otitis media
- Perforated eardrum
- Otosclerosis of ossicles
Vermillion border - ANSWER-Line between lips and face skin
Isthmus - ANSWER-The middle of the thyroid's lobes
Normal HEAD exam example (charting) - ANSWER-- NC/AT
(normocephalic/atraumatic)
- Non-tender to palpation at lymph nodes.
, Normal EYE exam example (charting) - ANSWER-- Visual acuity 20/20 B/L
- Field of vision good
- EOMI
- Sclera white, Conjunctiva Pink
- PERRLA
- Disc margins sharp
- No hemorrhages or exudates
Normal EAR exam example
(charting) - ANSWER-- Acuity good to finger rubbing
- Weber midline
- AC>BC
- TM's with good cone of light
Normal NOSE exam example (charting) - ANSWER-- Nasal mucosa pink
- Septum midline
- No sinus tenderness
Normal THROAT exam example (charting) - ANSWER-- Trachea midline
- Thyroid symmetric, not enlarged, no palpable nodules
- Neck supple
Patulous - ANSWER-Eustachian tube dysfunction
- Tube won't close
Opposite of dilatory
Dilatory - ANSWER-Eustachian tube dysfunction
- Tube won't DILATE
- Can't equalize pressure in head
What can you see on otoscopic exam? - ANSWER-- Tympanic membrane
- Cone of light
- Incus
- Malleus
- Umbo (foot of malleus)
What is the most common sense lost due to nerve damage? - ANSWER-Hearing!
Weber test - ANSWER-256 Hz tuning fork
- Testing for relative hearing between L/R ears
- Vibrate and put on top of pt's skull, midline
- + result = hear equally loud in both ears
- - resuls = lateralizes to one ear
