OK, so this is the least exciting topic in Pediatric Emergency Medicine… With that being said, you will all see it. And we need to be good at looking at ears, diagnosing acute otitis media, and appropriately choosing when and which antibiotic to prescribe.
References
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Lieberthal et al., The Diagnosis and Management of Acute Otitis Media. Pediatrics, March 2013, Volume 131 / Issue 3.
Rothman et al., Does this child have acute otitis media? JAMA. 2003;290(12):1633.
Shaikh et al., Development of an algorithm for the diagnosis of otitis media. Acad Pediatr. 2012;12(3):214. Epub 2012 Mar 28.
Thompson M, et al., Duration of symptoms of respiratory tract infections in children: systematic review. TARGET Programme BMJ. 2013;347:f7027. Epub 2013 Dec 11.
Venekamp RP, et al., Antibiotics for acute otitis media in children. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 201.
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