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what is rinnes test?
- folk on patient’s mastoid processes.
-Ask them to signal when they can no longer hear the note.
I- mmediately move the tuning fork away from the mastoid process, to the external auditory meatus on the same side, and ask the patient if they can hear the tuning fork now.
if so, the indication is that air conduction is better than bone conduction (AC > BC)
and there is no conductive deafness.
A negative Rinne’s test is when conductive deafness is present – bone conduction is better than
air conduction (BC > AC). An exception, however, is when one ear has no hearing at all. The
test may be falsely negative as sound is conducted through the bones of the skull to the ‘good’
ear.
-Ask them to signal when they can no longer hear the note.
I- mmediately move the tuning fork away from the mastoid process, to the external auditory meatus on the same side, and ask the patient if they can hear the tuning fork now.
if so, the indication is that air conduction is better than bone conduction (AC > BC)
and there is no conductive deafness.
A negative Rinne’s test is when conductive deafness is present – bone conduction is better than
air conduction (BC > AC). An exception, however, is when one ear has no hearing at all. The
test may be falsely negative as sound is conducted through the bones of the skull to the ‘good’
ear.
