Physical assessment: ears
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- Using the otoscope, the typmanic membrane is visualized. The color of a normal membrane is:
- pearly gray
- Sensorineural hearing loss may be related to:
- a gradual nerve degeneration
- Prior to examining the ear with the otoscope, what should be palpated for tenderness?
- pinna, tragus, and mastoid process
- While viewing with the otoscope,the examiner instructs the person to hold the nose and swallow. During this maneuver, the eardrum should:
- Flutter
- To diferentiate between air conduction and bone conduction hearing loss, the examiner would perform:
- Rinne test
- In examining the ear of an adult, the canal is straightened by pulling the auricle:
- up and back
- Darwin's tubercle is:
- a congentital, painless nodule at the helix
- When the ear is being examined with the otoscope, the patient's head should be:
- Tilted away from the examiner
- The hearing receptors are located in the:
- cochlea
- The sensation of vertigo is the result of:
- pathology in the semicircular canals
- A common cause of conductive hearing loss is:
- impacted cerumen
- In the Rinne test, the 2 to 1 ratio refers to:
- the lengths of time until the patient stops hearing the tone by air conduction and by bone conduction
- Upon examination of the tympanic membrane, visualizaiton of which of the following findings indicates the infection of acute purulent otitis media?
- absent light reflex, reddened drum, bulging drum
- In examining a young adult woman, you observe her tympanic membrane to be yellow in color. You suspect she has:
- serum in the middle ear.
- Risk reduction for acute otitis media includes:
- eliminating smoking in the house and car