Acute facial palsy
S. Musheer Hussain, Paul White, Kim W Ah-See, Patrick Spielmann, Mary-Louise Montague in ENT Head & Neck Emergencies, 2018
Due to the nature of force required, the majority of patients with temporal bone fractures will have multiple injuries, including possible intracranial and cervical spine injury. Therefore, initial assessment follows advanced trauma life support protocols with multidisciplinary involvement. Once the patient is stabilised, a complete neuro-otological examination is required, including otoscopy for haemotympanum/perforated eardrum, evidence of postauricular ecchymosis (Battle’s sign), CSF leak from the ear or nose and, in the conscious patient, assessment of facial nerve function, nystagmus and hearing loss (bedside tuning fork test and formal audiometric testing at the earliest opportunity). In the critically ill patient, rapid imaging with high-resolution CT is essential to evaluate the temporal bone but also the intracranial contents and potential cervical spine injury.
Outer Voice Blueprint
Norma T. Hollis in Blueprint for Engagement, 2018
If I had lived my life listening to and following what others said and not going through my Think – Communicate – Do process, I would be dead right now. You see, at age eight I developed a perforated eardrum. I woke up one July 5 and found that a brown liquid had oozed from my ear and dried in multiple places on my pillow case. I had a hole in my eardrum, which my father always referred to as a hole in my head. The hole was caused by an infection and the only way it could be treated at that time was through antibiotics.
Myringoplasty
John C Watkinson, Raymond W Clarke, Christopher P Aldren, Doris-Eva Bamiou, Raymond W Clarke, Richard M Irving, Haytham Kubba, Shakeel R Saeed in Paediatrics, The Ear, Skull Base, 2018
Myringoplasty can be defined as the surgical repair of the tympanic membrane.1 In the majority of cases the damage is likely to be a persisting perforation of the drum but there are also situations where a thin or retracted drum may need to be reinforced. This chapter will focus on the perforated eardrum but some of the techniques described are also applicable to reinforcement myringoplasty. Wullstein in 19562 classified tympanoplasty, with myringoplasty being classified as a Type I tympanoplasty.
Prevalence of extended high-frequency hearing loss among adolescents from two rural areas in Colombia
Published in International Journal of Audiology, 2021
Daniel Peñaranda, Lucía C. Pérez-Herrera, Diana Hernández, Sergio Moreno-López, Ilene Perea, Mario Jacome, Nancy Suetta-Lugo, Juan Manuel García, Augusto Peñaranda
The otoscopic findings recorded during the otologist clinical examination were discriminated by ear. Regarding the right ear, 363 normal tympanic membranes (99.18%) and 3 dry perforated eardrums (0.82%) were found. In the left ear otoscopic findings, 365 normal tympanic membranes (99.73) and 1 perforated eardrum with discharge (0.27%) were documented. It is relevant to note up that less than 1% of the ears had chronic otitis media otoscopic findings. Thus, when these findings were included in the statistical analysis, they did not entail a significant fluctuation of the results.
Related Knowledge Centers
- Conductive Hearing Loss
- Otitis Media
- Otoscope
- Tinnitus
- Infection
- Eardrum
- Vertigo
- Injury
- Ear Clearing
- Ear Pain