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Otitis media - ANSWERSMiddle ear infection
Sensorineural hearing loss
Causes? - ANSWERSProblem 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? - ANSWERSExternal 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 - ANSWERSLine between lips and face skin
Isthmus - ANSWERSThe middle of the thyroid's lobes
Normal HEAD exam example (charting) - ANSWERS- NC/AT (normocephalic/atraumatic)
- Non-tender to palpation at lymph nodes.
Normal EYE exam example (charting) - 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) - ANSWERS- Acuity good to finger rubbing
- Weber midline
- AC>BC
- TM's with good cone of light
Normal NOSE exam example (charting) - ANSWERS- Nasal mucosa pink
- Septum midline
- No sinus tenderness