Myringotomy with or without tube placement and mastoidectomy have the highest cure rates for pediatric acute mastoiditis.
Multidisciplinary Pediatric Teams Can Improve Patient Care
Multidisciplinary teams can dramatically improve time to diagnosis, cost reduction, and clinical outcomes.
Should Children with an Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct Be Restricted from Contact Sports?
Patients with EVA are commonly discouraged from playing contact sports due to concerns about a possible risk for sudden hearing drops or vestibular dysfunction following even minor head trauma.
Factors to Consider When Treating Pediatric Airway Reconstruction
This list clarifies expert opinion on which patient, disease, procedural, and outcome measures may be important to consider in any pediatric airway reconstruction patient.
Tonsillectomy, Adenoidectomy Tied to Higher Risks of Respiratory, Allergic, Infectious Diseases
Researchers of a new study looked at the long-term health risks associated with removing tonsils and adenoids in children, and found that these procedures were associated with increased long-term risk of respiratory, infectious, and allergic disease (JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. Published online June 7, 2018. doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2018.0614). The investigators analyzed data on nearly 1.2 million […]
FDA Warning Slows, but Does Not Stop, Codeine Prescribing in Children after Tonsillectomy
One in 20 children are prescribed codeine after undergoing tonsillectomy despite FDA black box warning regarding safety and efficacy issues associated with prescribing the opioid to children after these surgeries.
Tips for Conducting Head and Neck Exams in Children
Practical tips to help medical students and physicians examine young children.
Is There an Optimal Location for Tympanostomy Tube Placement?
There is no body of evidence to suggest that there is an optimal location for placing tympanostomy tubes, yet the anterior-inferior quadrant is commonly used
OSA and Otolaryngology Procedures are Risk Factors for Unanticipated Hospital Admissions after Ambulatory Surgery in Kids
Most unanticipated admissions following ambulatory surgery in children are related to anesthesia, with otolaryngology procedures and obstructive sleep apnea among the most significant predictive factors for admission.
Can Tonsil Size Help Predict Pediatric OSA Severity?
A study showed that tonsil size did not correlate with baseline OSA severity, even when adenoid hypertrophy was accounted for in the analysis
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