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43 Cards in this Set
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Your client is a 50-year-old male he has mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss he has excellent speech discrimination what would be the biggest influence for him pursuing hearing aids |
Self-motivation |
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Flaring up the end of the tubing results in what frequency change |
Increases 2000 to 5000 Hz |
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When obtaining audiometric threshold 1000 Hz is tested twice because |
Test retest reliability lease to be established |
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Which of the following is not an advantage of using acrylic earmolds |
Better seal for profound hearing loss |
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When taking an ear impression why might your patient cough |
It's a normal response to cough when Arnold's reflexes elicited |
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Which tool should be utilize when verifying otoblock placement in the ear canal? |
Otoscope |
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Which of the following dynamic range is would indicate recruitment |
25 DB |
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Recruitment is most common in |
Sensorineural hearing loss |
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Endolymph can be found in which part of the cochlea |
Scala media |
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Endolymph can be found in which part of the cochlea |
Scala media |
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Which of the following causes of feedback might you send hearing aid in for repair |
Microphone is loose within the BTE case |
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Which size of venting would be most appropriate for a client with thresholds from 250 to 1K parts between 0 to 25 db HL |
IROS |
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Which size of venting would be most appropriate for a client with thresholds from 250 to 1K parts between 0 to 25 db HL |
IROS |
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Narrowband noise is |
Considered more effective for pure tones masking |
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In bone conduction testing ambient room noise will cause |
Low-frequency thresholds to appear poorer |
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In bone conduction testing ambient room noise will cause |
Low-frequency thresholds to appear poorer |
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What is responsible for an individual sense of motion |
Semicircular Canal's |
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The purpose of word recognition testing is |
To evaluate a patient's ability to recognize mono-syllabic words from a phonetically balanced list |
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Inter-octaves should be tested when there is |
20 DB hearing loss difference between adjoining octaves |
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Inter-octaves should be tested when there is |
20 DB hearing loss difference between adjoining octaves |
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A pure conductive hearing loss will show |
All bone conduction thresholds within normal limits |
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What level is used to run a frequency response curve for a AGC hearing aid |
60 DB SPL |
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What level is used to run a frequency response curve for a AGC hearing aid |
60 DB SPL |
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Increasing the vent size of a custom hearing aid reduces |
Occlusion effect |
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Ototoxic medicines cause |
Damage to the outer hair cells |
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Ototoxic medicines cause |
Damage to the outer hair cells |
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Structure that separates the scala tympani from the scala media movie is called |
The basilar membrane |
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Ototoxic medicines cause |
Damage to the outer hair cells |
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Structure that separates the scala tympani from the scala media movie is called |
The basilar membrane |
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What frequencies are used to calculate the HF-Average full on gain |
1000,1600,2500 |
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What does the O mean in MTO |
Turns the device off |
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What does the O mean in MTO |
Turns the device off |
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Dampers smooth the frequency response for which frequencies |
1000-3000 Hz |
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Which quadrant allows for the most head movement and therefore is in adequate bracing technique |
Posterior -inferior |
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What to muscles contract to protect the year from loud noises |
Tensor Tympani , Stapedius |
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What order of energy transduction occurs in our hearing system |
Acoustic ,mechanical ,hydraulic electro-chemical |
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Which Tympanogram type would most likely from a dis articulated ossicular chain |
Type Ad |
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Spondees are used for determining |
SRT |
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Where would you most likely not see a noise notch on an audiogram |
500Hz |
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How do you determine a clients dynamic range |
SRT minus UCL |
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When would overmasking most likely occur |
Bone conduction testing |
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When would overmasking most likely occur |
Bone conduction testing |
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Which speech test utilizes Phonetically balance words |
WRS |
