Final Review NUR 621 PT 1
Questions & Verified Answers
What are the two leading causes of childhood mortality and morbidity worldwide - correct
answer ✔✔Rotavirus and strep pneumonia
(Successful vaccination programs are effective)
Most common cause of sudden cardiac death in athletes - correct answer ✔✔hypertrophic
cardiomyopathy
What percentage of children are obese in US?
What are they at risk of-comorbidities - correct answer ✔✔17% , heart disease, type 2 dm,
stroke, osteoarthritis
How many children live in food insecure households? - correct answer ✔✔1 in 5
conductive hearing loss - correct answer ✔✔• sound waves interrupted
- cerumen, Otitis, perforation of TM, temporal bone fx, hematoma
-reversible
-sound lateralizes to affected side
-BC>AC
sensorineural hearing loss - correct answer ✔✔- presbycusis (aging); Organ Corti hair follicle
changes loss of high frequency sounds first
- VIII Cranial nerve
- Menieres, tumor, medications, syphillis, CNS disease
, - Irreversible
** Normal age loss: Bilateral hearing loss
-sound lateralizes to unaffected ear
Acoustic Neuroma (Vestibular Schwannoma) - correct answer ✔✔unilateral sensorineural
hearing loss
• Tumor affecting CN VIlI
• Rare
• Usually facial weakness, taste change, dysphagia
• UNILATERAL
Schwabach Test - correct answer ✔✔tuning-fork test that compares an individual's hearing by
bone conduction with the hearing of an examiner (who is presumed to have normal hearing)
cerumen impaction treatment - correct answer ✔✔-olive oil drops/ flush with peroxide
- flush toward canal, not TM
- Debrox daily times 1 week
tinnitus - correct answer ✔✔cochlear hair cells/nerves discharging repetitively
• Intermittent, continuous, or pulsatile (synchronous with heartbeat)
• Noise ringing, buzzing
• Incidence peaks 40-70 years of age
Subjective (only patient can hear)
Obiective (reviewer can hear with stethoscope over ear/neck region (AVMs))
• Risk factors
Questions & Verified Answers
What are the two leading causes of childhood mortality and morbidity worldwide - correct
answer ✔✔Rotavirus and strep pneumonia
(Successful vaccination programs are effective)
Most common cause of sudden cardiac death in athletes - correct answer ✔✔hypertrophic
cardiomyopathy
What percentage of children are obese in US?
What are they at risk of-comorbidities - correct answer ✔✔17% , heart disease, type 2 dm,
stroke, osteoarthritis
How many children live in food insecure households? - correct answer ✔✔1 in 5
conductive hearing loss - correct answer ✔✔• sound waves interrupted
- cerumen, Otitis, perforation of TM, temporal bone fx, hematoma
-reversible
-sound lateralizes to affected side
-BC>AC
sensorineural hearing loss - correct answer ✔✔- presbycusis (aging); Organ Corti hair follicle
changes loss of high frequency sounds first
- VIII Cranial nerve
- Menieres, tumor, medications, syphillis, CNS disease
, - Irreversible
** Normal age loss: Bilateral hearing loss
-sound lateralizes to unaffected ear
Acoustic Neuroma (Vestibular Schwannoma) - correct answer ✔✔unilateral sensorineural
hearing loss
• Tumor affecting CN VIlI
• Rare
• Usually facial weakness, taste change, dysphagia
• UNILATERAL
Schwabach Test - correct answer ✔✔tuning-fork test that compares an individual's hearing by
bone conduction with the hearing of an examiner (who is presumed to have normal hearing)
cerumen impaction treatment - correct answer ✔✔-olive oil drops/ flush with peroxide
- flush toward canal, not TM
- Debrox daily times 1 week
tinnitus - correct answer ✔✔cochlear hair cells/nerves discharging repetitively
• Intermittent, continuous, or pulsatile (synchronous with heartbeat)
• Noise ringing, buzzing
• Incidence peaks 40-70 years of age
Subjective (only patient can hear)
Obiective (reviewer can hear with stethoscope over ear/neck region (AVMs))
• Risk factors
