Course Objectives

Course participants successfully completing this course will:

1. Define otitis media
2. Describe the primary population affected by otitis media.
3. Review the normal pediatric auditory anatomy.
4. Relate the ways that fluid enters and leaves the ET with changes in pressure and risk of disease.
5. Differentiate between AOM and OME.
6. List factors contributing to the development of OM.
7. Identify primary pathogens isolated from the middle ear.
8. Identify indirect and direct evidence of middle ear infection.
9. Describe the benefit of pneumatic otoscopy.
10. Describe the medical treatment of AOM and OME including first and second line antibiotics.
    
11. Describe some of the surgical treatments of OM.
12. Suggest some preventive measures against contracting OM.

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