General
Sign and symptoms
Complications
Nursing Management
Prevention
100
inflammation of the middle ear
Define otitis media?
100
Fever
Otitis media is an infection. what is the most common sign of an infection?
100
Deafness
What is one complication of otitis media?
100
supine position with pillow supporting patients head
What is the comfortable position in managing a patient with otitis media?
100
Advice parents to keep their children away from sick adults and children.
How to prevent transmission of pathogens which can lead to otitis media?
200
Fluid and pathogens travels from nasopharyngeal area, invades the middle ear. Fluid of eardrum find it difficult to drain back towards nasopharyngeal area. Pathogens gain access to the Eustachian tube,thus proliferates and invades mucosa, which causes the inflammation of the middle ear
Explain how otitis media is caused?
200
child pulling on his or her earlobes
state one of the most common sign and symptom of otitis media.
200
reformation of eardrum
Otitis media can lead to what?
200
2 hourly turns of the patients head
How many hourly should the head of the patient be turned?
200
Exclusively breastfeeding infants.
What facilitates the transfer of maternal antibodies to fetus to help prevent infection?
300
otoscope visual assessment for confirmation swab culture history of acute onset
What are some of the diagnostic tests for otitis media?
300
Drainage from the ear
state one sign and symptom which is also a diagnostic medium.
300
Mastoiditis
One of the complications of otitis media is?
300
administer antibiotics
Name one drug that is used in the treatment of otitis media?
300
Exposure to secondhand smoke.
One of the risk factors of Upper respiratory infection which can lead to otitis media?
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