Diagnosis and treatment of otitis media

American Family Physician

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Ramakrishnan, Kalyanakrishnan ^a   Sparks, Rhonda A ^a   Berryhill, Wayne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; AURALGAN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFDINIR; CEFPODOXIME PROXETIL; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPRO HC OTIC; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTISPORIN; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; HYDROCORTISONE; IBUPROFEN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; NARCOTIC AGENT; OFLOXACIN; PARACETAMOL; PENICILLIN G; POLYMYXIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALGESIA; ANAPHYLAXIS; ATROPHY; CHOLESTEATOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG COST; DRUG MEGADOSE; GASTROINTESTINAL IRRITATION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; MASTOIDITIS; MENINGITIS; MENTAL HEALTH; META ANALYSIS; MONOTHERAPY; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NOSE ALLERGY; NOSE CONGESTION; OTITIS MEDIA; OTORRHEA; OTOSCOPY; OTOTOXICITY; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TYMPANOMETRY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHMS; AMOXICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINDAMYCIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; INFANT; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; MORAXELLACEAE INFECTIONS; OTITIS MEDIA; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; OTITIS MEDIA, SUPPURATIVE; OTOSCOPY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 36849066864     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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