HEENT Exam with correct answers

HEENT Exam with correct answers


Otitis media - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Middle ear infection



Sensorineural hearing loss

Causes? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔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? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔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 - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Line between lips and face skin



Isthmus - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔The middle of the thyroid's lobes



Normal HEAD exam example (charting) - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔- NC/AT
(normocephalic/atraumatic)

- Non-tender to palpation at lymph nodes.



Normal EYE exam example (charting) - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔- 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) - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔- Acuity good to finger rubbing

- Weber midline

- AC>BC

- TM's with good cone of light



Normal NOSE exam example (charting) - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔- Nasal mucosa pink

- Septum midline

- No sinus tenderness



Normal THROAT exam example (charting) - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔- Trachea midline

- Thyroid symmetric, not enlarged, no palpable nodules

- Neck supple