Test 2 HEENT assessment questions and answers Graded A

Test 2 HEENT assessment questions and answers Graded A What does HEENT stand for? Correct Answer: Head Eyes Ears Nose Throat What are you looking for when inspecting and palpating the head? Correct Answer: 1) Head position 2) Symmetry of facial features 3) Shape and size of skull 4_ Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) What facial nerve is affected if you have facial ptosis? Correct Answer: The seventh cranial nerve What are you looking at when you assess facial features for symmetry? Correct Answer: 1) Eyelids 2) Eyebrows 3) Nasolabial folds 4) mouth What is Normocephalic? Correct Answer: Normal sized head What is Acromegaly? Correct Answer: A disorder where your bones become enlarged in the face because of growth hormone On extreme lateral movements what is the normal amount of beats for the nystagmus? Correct Answer: 1-2 beats What are you assessing during the Eye inspection? Correct Answer: 1) Visual acuity 2) Extraocular movements 3) Parallel eye movement 4) Visual field 5) Internal structure 6) Lacrimal glands 7) Tear ducts 8) Conjunctiva 9) Sclera 9) Cornea 10) Pupils 11) PERRLA What would you use to test the visual acuity? Correct Answer: The Snellen eye chart What would you use to assess extraoccular movements? Correct Answer: Six directions of gaze What does ptosis mean? Correct Answer: Drooping What is sight like for a person with retinal detachment ? Correct Answer: Blind spot over part of your vision A client is assessed to have a yellow tinge to its sclera. What tests would you expect form pcp? Correct Answer: Liver enzymes What are some causes of having Bulging eyes? Correct Answer: Graves disease, trauma What does Strabismus mean? Correct Answer: Crossing the eyes What are you looking at when inspecting the position and alignment of the eyes? Correct Answer: 1) Paralell 2) Crossing 3) Bulging What is Exophthalmos? Correct Answer: Bulging What are you looking at when Inspecting the eyebrows? Correct Answer: 1) Distribution 2) Position 3) Alignment 4) Movement What are you looking at when inspecting eyelashes? Correct Answer: 1) Distribution 2) Direction What are you looking at when inspecting the eyelids? Correct Answer: 1) Color 2) Motility 3) Position- ptosis 4) Alignment 5) Edema 6) Lesions Having your ears lower than your eyes is indicative of what condition? Correct Answer: Downs syndrome What is the average size of Normal pupils? Correct Answer: 3-7mm What are you looking at when you are inspecting pupils? Correct Answer: 1) Size 2) Shape 3 Equality 4 Accomodation 5 Raction to light What does PERRLA stand for? Correct Answer: Pupils Eqaul Round React to Light Accomodation What can cause constricted pupils? Correct Answer: Bright light, trauma, morphine or hydromorphone What can cause pupils to dilate? Correct Answer: Darkness and atropine What color is the sclera? Correct Answer: white What color should the cornea be? Correct Answer: translucent What is hyperopia? Correct Answer: Ability to see far objects but nor near objects. Far sighted What is Presbyopia? Correct Answer: Impaired near vision of the middle aged or older adults. Reading glasses What is myopia? Correct Answer: The ability to see objects close up but not far away. Near sighted What is Astigmatism? Correct Answer: When the eye is shaped like a football. The cornea becomes misshaped and corrective lenses will be needed to focus light on the right spot What is Retinopathy? Correct Answer: Disease of the retina. Noninflammatory. Decreased blood flow to the retina. What could be a cause of retinopathy? Correct Answer: Diabetes What are cataracts? Correct Answer: A cloud that is part of your cornea making it difficult to see through the lense. What is glaucoma? Correct Answer: Increased intraoccular eye pressure What is Macular degeneration? Correct Answer: Blurred vision common in people over 50 What can cause Macular degeneration? Correct Answer: Diabetes and having the excess glucose in the basement cell membrane. making it harder due to atherosclerosis What are you inspecting/palpating when looking at a persons ear? Correct Answer: 1) Size 2) Shape 3) Symmetry 4) Position 5) Color 6) Integrity 7) Position 8) Discharge What you looking at when considering the Symmetry of the ear? Correct Answer: Checking that the oricals are normally level with eachother What are you looking for when viewing color for the ear? Correct Answer: Lesions inflammation What is something that could compromise the integrity of the ear? Correct Answer: Piercings What are you looking at when inspecting the position of the ear? Correct Answer: Compare the level of lateral eye canthus What can low set auricles be indicative of? Correct Answer: Chromosomal abnormalities What should the tympanic membrane look like? Correct Answer: Translucent peary shiny grey What is Cerumen? Correct Answer: Earwax What are you looking at when viewing discharge in the ear? Correct Answer: 1) Cerumen 2) Drainage How would you straighten the ear for canal visualization in adults? Correct Answer: Pull auricle up, back, and slightly out How would you straighten the ear canal for visualization in infants? Correct Answer: Pull auricle back and down What are you assessing with the ear inspection? Correct Answer: 1) Ear pain 2) Itching 3) Vertigo 4) Tinnitus How would you test hearing acuity? Correct Answer: Whisper test. Stand behind the person and whisper while getting closer to the person until they hear you. What is peritis? Correct Answer: Itching What is Vertigo? Correct Answer: Dizzy What is Ototoxicity? Correct Answer: Injury to the auditory never What medications can lead to Autotoxicity? Correct Answer: 1) Aspirin 2) Streptomycin 3) Furosemide 4) Aminoglycosides What is Tinnitus? Correct Answer: Ringing in the ear What is Furosemide? Correct Answer: Lasix given IV form