Tympanocentesis is indicated in children with acute otitis media who have had treatment failure with multiple rounds of antibiotic therapy.

A “HEALTHY” four-year-old girl was left “paralysed” after undergoing a procedure to remove her tonsils. The cause – known medically as pseudocholinesterase deficiency … ...

Ear infections are the most common reason parents take children to the doctors. MNT explains ear infections and how to treat them.

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You or your child may have an earache along with a sore throat, stuffy nose, or fever --– signs of a possible infection. Learn more about how doctors diagnose and treat these cases.

Study findings suggest that higher-valency pneumococcal conjugate vaccines will have limited impact in reducing pneumococcal colonization and AOM in children.

After the publication of the excellent review paper on vaccines to prevent otitis media, by Felix et al. (2008) 1, we found new data on the relationship between acute respiratory tract infections ...

Identification and Characterization of the Bacterial Etiology of Clinically Problematic Acute Otitis media after Tympanocentesis or Spontaneous Otorrhea in German Children.

The MEF samples were collected by tympanocentesis. Although we tired our best to avert contamination we cannot exclude the possibility contact of the external auditory canal by the tympanocentesis ...

AOM diagnoses were confirmed by tympanocentesis and bacterial culture of middle ear fluid. The researchers found that male sex, non-Hispanic white race, family history of recurrent AOM, day care ...