General Surgery — Flashcards

The _____ is shorter and more horizontal in children which leads to negative pressure in the middle ear and fluid accumulation

Hint: Anatomy

What is the management of suspected viral tonsillitis? _____

Patients with acute otitis media who are systemically unwell or are immunocompromised should be given an _____

Hint: Mx

_____ tonsillitis presents with sudden-onset fever, severe pain on swallowing, exudative tonsils, & cervical lymphadenopathy

Hint: viral/bacterial

Following grommet insertion for otitis media with effusion, a _____ must be performed 6 weeks later

Patients with acute otitis media should be given _____ if there is no improvement within 3 days

Uncomplicated otitis externa is managed with _____ with or without a topical steroid

_____ and Piperacillin-tazobactam may be used to treat malignant otitis externa due to their coverage of Pseudomonas

What can be an adverse effect of axillary node clearance in Breast Cancer surgery?

Otoscopy of otitis media with effusion will show a _____, retracted tympanic membrane +/- a(n) air fluid level/bubbles