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the HR is 92/min RR is 14/min, BP is 130/86 mmhg, spo2 is 97% and atrial fibrillation is on the monitor what additional assessment and stabilization activities should be completed ? - CORRECT ANSWER-check glucose, perform validated prehospital stroke screen and stroke severity tool, provide prehospital notification to the receiving hospital, initiate stroke protocol, establish time of symptom onset ( last known normal) what needs to be completed for this patient within 20 minutes after...

List five *assessment and verification* measures. - CORRECT ANSWER-1) The aided audiogram 2) Speech testing 3) Real ear measurement 4) Subjective measures 5) Surveys/Communication scales What do our textbook authors say about the usefulness of aided audiograms? - CORRECT ANSWER-Aided audiograms are *rarely useful*. But Peterson disagrees because certain professionals love them. Which professionals tend to love aided audiograms? - CORRECT ANSWER-Teachers of the hearing impaired and...

A large perforation of TM can commonly cause how many dB of loss. - CORRECT ANSWER-30 dB What type of loss is favorable to medical treatment. - CORRECT ANSWER-Conductive Carhart Notch appearing at 2 KHz. BC test is poorer than the actual sensorineural response in the low frequencies. Caucasian middle-aged women are most at risk. Worse for pregnant women, who can experience a rapid decrease in hearing ability: - CORRECT ANSWER-Otosclerosis ___ is good to find hearing loss. ___ & SRT are...

Professionalism can be defined as practicing with ______________ . A) A high performance standard B) Accountability C) Work ethic D) All the above - CORRECT ANSWER-D) All the above Accountability, A High Performance Standard, Work Ethic The legal aspects of professional practice are defined through A) Membership in a professional society B) Ethical Conduct C) Local and National Laws and Regulations D) The FDA - CORRECT ANSWER-C) Local & National Laws and Regulations Ethical conduc...

Why do we perform audiometric tests? - CORRECT ANSWER-to determine the different characteristics of a hearing loss if one presents A hearing loss is characterized by what three descriptors? - CORRECT ANSWER-1. Type of hearing loss (conductive, sensorineural, mixed) 2. Degree of hearing loss (mild, moderate, etc) 3. Configuration of hearing loss or what the hearing loss looks like (ex: flat, rising, sloping, etc) Conductive hearing loss - CORRECT ANSWER-a loss that occurs when sound is ...

db loss of a perforation of TM - CORRECT ANSWER-10-15db loss procedure done to fix perforation - CORRECT ANSWER-tympanoplasty or myringoplasty monomeric spots - CORRECT ANSWER-looks like a hole in TM, but reflects light like a mirror. holes that have healed. aka "mirror membranes" average dimentions of an adult eardrum - CORRECT ANSWER-2.3-2.9cm in length, .7cm in diameters pars tensa - CORRECT ANSWER-lower 4/5 of TM and tight pars flaccida - CORRECT ANSWER-upper 1/5 of TM and flacc...

Temporal masking - CORRECT ANSWER-Intense sounds mask weak sounds Saturation sound pressure level (SSPL) - CORRECT ANSWER-the highest value of sound pressure level that a hearing aid can provide (varies per frequency) - CORRECT ANSWER-Hearing aid output when given an input at 90db SPL Transducer - CORRECT ANSWER-Microphone + receiver Transistor - CORRECT ANSWER-Part of the amplifier that controls the voltage from the battery Effects of compression on low level speech - CORRECT ANSWER-Ma...

What BEST describes the effect on the patient if you continue to lower a hearing instrument's kneepoint and increase the compression ratio? Choose ALL that apply. A. a lot of gain for soft sounds B. very few speech cues in a crowded party C. little or no gain for moderately loud sounds D. too much amplification in a crowded party - CORRECT ANSWER-A,B, & C What frequencies would be MOST affected by a head cold? - CORRECT ANSWERLow frequencies. 250,500 What is found on the bottom of the e...

Professionalism - CORRECT ANSWER-___________ is practicing with impeccable performance, accountability, and work ethic. Ethical conduct - CORRECT ANSWER-____________ is rooted in a code of acceptable social behavior as determined by society's conventions regarding polite behavior and doing the right thing for the right reasons SOAP notes stands for - CORRECT ANSWER-S; subjective; O: objective; A: assessment P: plan HEAR notes stands for - CORRECT ANSWER-H: history; E: evaluation; A: ...

ILE - CORRECT ANSWER-International Licensing Exam recommend self help group, encourage wearing schedule, troubleshoot equipment - CORRECT ANSWER-after a 3 month follow up apt, a patient complains they are frustrated with their inability to understand conversation in noisy places even with a remote microphone. the hearing healthcare professional should ______? contralateral reflex illustrates consistency - CORRECT ANSWER-which one of the following statements LEAST applies when interpreti...