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
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