Sensory Disorder Study Guide Graded A+

A nurse caring for a patient with nonneovascular macular degeneration knows to prepare the patient for which therapy? {Ans: }A patient has suffered hearing loss after a stroke. Which type of hearing loss would the nurse expect the patient to have? {Ans: Central hearing loss is a result of damage to the brain's auditory pathways. This type of hearing loss is common after a stroke or tumor growth. Functional hearing loss has no underlying reason and may be due to psychological or emotional factors. Conductive hearing loss occurs when the sound conducted through the external or middle ear to the sensorineural apparatus of the inner ear is inadequate. In sensorineural hearing loss, the external and middle ear conduct the sound appropriately, but the sound becomes distorted by a defect in the inner ear.}Which visual disorder is characterized by slow, progressive loss of central and near vision? {Ans: The visual disorder characterized by slow, progressive loss of central and near vision is ARMD. The wet type, accounting for 10% of cases, is related to new blood vessel growth (neovascularization) that occurs suddenly. Vision loss is irreversible. The more common type, the dry type, is caused by degenerative changes