Why use tympanometry in general practice: A review

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...

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...

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...

Models of clinical reasoning with a focus on general practice: a critical review

Introduction: Diagnosis lies at the heart of general practice.Every day general practitioners (GPs) visit patients with awide variety of complaints and concerns, with often minor butsometimes serious symptoms. General practice has many featureswhich differentiate it from specialty care setting, but during thelast four decades little attention was paid to clinical reasoningin general practice. T...