Tympanometry in general practice: use, problems and solutions

Tympanometry in general practice: use, problems and solutions.

OBJECTIVES The diagnosis in children with middle ear symptoms is often difficult. Tympanometry is recommended as a supplementary diagnostic tool with a high predictive value for fluid or no fluid in the middle ear. The aim of this study was to examine how tympanometry was used in Danish general practice in 2009, to report common problems general practitioners (GPs) and GP nurses encounter in ty...

Why use tympanometry in general practice: A review

Otitis media is a frequent problem in preschool children and one of the most common reasons for treatment with antibiotics in children. The exact diagnosis is important for proper management. The diagnosis of otitis media is often difficult. Pneumatic otoscopy, otomicroscopy, and tympanometry can improve the diagnostic quality by indicating fluid or no fluid in the middle ear and thus improve t...

Using tympanometry to detect glue ear in general practice.

Tympanometry in Clinical Practice

Two “must read” articles on the development of clinical tympanometry are Terkildsen and Thomsen (1959) and Terkildsen and Scott-Nielsen (1960). Their interest in estimating middle-ear pressure and in measuring recruitment with the acoustic reflex had a profound effect on the development of clinical instruments. Each time I read these articles, I am struck first by the incredible amount of infor...

Diagnostic problems in general practice.

T' HE idea of this study originated from the establishment of a 1 diagnostic centre in Edinburgh in 1959. Aware that various aspects of general practice are increasingly the subject of discussion and argument but less frequently critically examined, we decided to study the records of 200 patients that one of us, a general practitioner, had examined at the Family Doctor Centre in Edinburgh. Thes...