CPSP FCPS I ENT MCQs

Tracheostomy is a surgically created opening into the trachea to establish or support an airway.

Acute otitis media is acute infection or inflammation of the middle ear, common in children.

Otitis externa is inflammation of the external auditory canal, often painful with tragal movement.

Conductive hearing loss is hearing impairment caused by failure of sound transmission through the external or middle ear.

Sensorineural hearing loss is hearing impairment caused by cochlear or auditory nerve dysfunction.

Ménière disease is a disorder with episodic vertigo, fluctuating hearing loss, tinnitus and aural fullness.

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is brief positional vertigo caused by displaced otoconia in a semicircular canal.

Epistaxis is bleeding from the nasal cavity.

Proton-pump inhibitor is a drug that irreversibly suppresses the gastric hydrogen-potassium ATPase.

Naloxone is a competitive opioid receptor antagonist used to reverse opioid toxicity.

Competitive antagonist is a reversible receptor blocker whose effect can be overcome by increasing agonist concentration.

First-pass metabolism is presystemic metabolism that reduces oral bioavailability before a drug reaches systemic circulation.