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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

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This course is designed to provide physicians, nurses, medical students and interested others with an introduction to the identification of otitis media with effusion.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Use the COMPT mnemonic to consider important tympanic membrane (TM) features in diagnosing otitis media with effusion (OME).
  • Discriminate between effusion-free ears and those with middle ear effusion MEE.
  • Properly identify the conditions of OME and no effusion.
  • Identify the elements of the COMPLETES ear examination.
  • Troubleshoot common challenges associated with pneumatic otoscopy examinations.
SPECIAL NOTE:
The educational content for this course can be found at http://pedsed.pitt.edu. For this course, this ISER site is designed to collect CME evaluations and issue credits for to those who have completed the training.

Suggested Additional Reading:

  1. Bluestone CD. Chairman: Committee Report: Terminology and classification of otitis media and its complications and sequelae. In Lim DJ, Bluestone CD, Casselbrant ML, et al, editors. 7th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Otitis Media: Report of the research conference. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol 2002;111 2 Suppl
  2. Hoberman A, Marchant CD, Kaplan SL, Feldman S. Treatment of acute otitis media: Consensus recommendations. Clinical Pediatrics 2002; 6:373-390
  3. Kaleida PH. The COMPLETES exam for otitis. Contemp Pediatr 1997;93-101.

Authors:
Mary Ann Haralam MSN APRN,BC Nurse Practitioner — Division of General Academic Pediatrics Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
Phillip H. Kaleida MD — Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Division of General Academic Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Dr. Kaleida has disclosed that he has served as a consultant to Sanofi Aventis
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

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