Exam 43: Assisting in Eye and Ear Care

A person who is profoundly deaf and cannot benefit from using a hearing aid may be a candidate for a(n) ________, which stimulates the auditory nerve.

The only medications that should be used in the eye are called _______ medications.

Symptoms of retinal detachment include ____.

Which condition distorts vision because the cornea is unevenly curved?

To perform the _____ hearing test, the practitioner measures the amount of time the patient can hear the sound from a tuning fork placed near the mastoid bone. This is then followed by measuring the amount of time the patient can hear the sound when the tuning fork is placed near the ear canal.

In which ear disorder does the patient complain that the room appears to spin, causing dizziness, and the sensation is exacerbated by any movement, sometimes to the point of nausea and vomiting?

Which of the following is used to test for distance vision?

Which progressive eye disease causes a loss of vision in the center of an image, while peripheral vision remains intact?

The Snellen letter chart is commonly used to test for ____.

The misalignment of the eyes is called ________ and makes it look like a person is looking in two different directions.

A(n) ________ is a handheld instrument with a light that is used to view the inner eye structures.

If the audiometer is adjusted to increase the decibel level, the sound produced by the audiometer will become ____.

Which of the following is not a possible symptom of an ear infection in a young child?

Ringing in the ears is called ____.

In a procedure known as ________, a hole in the retina is fixed using surgical fixation with cold.