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IHS Final Exam with correct answersHEAR Notes - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ History
Evaluation
Assessment
Recommendation
Ethics - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ The code that differentiates right and wrong
Laws - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Society's rules for ethical behavior
Personal Ethics - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Ethics which are ingrained as a result of one's life
experiences
Business Ethics - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ A set of standards or behavior intended to prevent
unfair competition or personal gain resulting from business decisions or transactions
Professional Ethics - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Rules or principles that govern the behavior of the
members of a profession
Organizational Ethics - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Management of relationships between provider
organizations and patients and the public under a set of principle of conduct
PHI - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Protected Health Information
8 Red Flag Conditions - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ 1. Visible congenital or traumatic deformity of
the ear
2. Active drainage from ear w/in past 90 days
3. Sudden or rapidly progressive hearing loss w/in past 90 days
,4. Dizziness
5. Sudden unilateral hearing loss w/in past 90 days
6. Air-bone gap of 15 dB or great at 500, 1000, and 2000 Hz
7. Significant cerumen accumulation or foreign body in ear canal
8. Pain/discomfort in ear
Sound - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Vibratory energy transmitted by pressure waves through a
medium
Resonance - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ The natural tendency for an object to vibrate with great
amplitude at one frequency than at others when a driving force is applied
Frequency - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Number of complete compression-rarefaction cycles per
second
Pure Tone - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Produced by simple repeated alternations of compression
and rarefactions
Wavelength - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ The distance between one wave crest or trough to the next
Rarefaction - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ When air molecules are less dense and spread further
apart
Complex Wave - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Acoustic combination of several different pure tones
present simultaneously
Resonant frequency - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ The frequency at which an object vibrates with
the greatest amplitude
Sound Pressure - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ The deviation from the ambient atmospheric pressure
caused by a sound wave
,Period - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ The time required for one complete cycle of compression and
rarefaction
dB HL Reference - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Audiometric Zero
Boyle's Law - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ States that as the physical volume that contains a gas
decreases, the pressure of the gas increases
Decibel (dB) - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ A logarithmic scale used to denote the intensity of a
sound
Amplitude - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ The intensity of the energy of a vibrating body
Compression - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ When air molecules are pushed together, making the
molecular density greater than when at rest
dB SL reference - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Threshold
Phase - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Describes the position in the cycle of one sound wave relative to
another
Loudness - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Psychological response to intensity
Pitch - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Psychological perception of frequency
Critical bands - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Represents the frequency resolution abilities of the ear
Intensity - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Physical measurement that expresses signal amplitude
, Non-critical items - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ -Items that contact only intact skin or do not
directly touch patients
-Require cleaning and low-level disinfection after use
Sterilization - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Process whereby 100% of germs are killed, including
endospores
Touch Surface - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Any patient-care surface that may come in direct or
indirect contact with hands
Disinfecting - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Process whereby germs are killed
Splash Surface - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Any patient-care surface that may be potentially hit
with bloody, bodily fluids, saliva, or other secretions
Direct Contact Transmission - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Requires close physical contact between
infected individuals and another person
Droplet Contact Transmission - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Occurs when organisms are transferred
via droplets from an infected person when they cough, sneeze, or talk
Standard Precautions - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ A set of infection control practices designed to
prevent transmission of disease
Vectorborne Transmission - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Occurs via an animal or insect that can
transmit the disease from an infected individual to another person
Vehicle Transmission - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Occurs when a contaminant is ingested or there
is exposure to contaminated substances via food, water, blood, or bodily fluids
Indirect Contact Transmission - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Occurs when an infected person or
object touches a surface and the another person touches that surface
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