Exam 1 - HEENT Exam Correct Questions & Answers(RATED A)

Exam 1 - HEENT Exam Correct Questions &
Answers(RATED A)

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