Open AccessClinico-Bacteriological Study of Chronic Otitis Media and its Prevalence in Tertiary Care Hospital
Author(s) -
Kiran Meena,
Gaurav Batni,
Rakesh Maran
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.229
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2231-3796
pISSN - 0973-7707
DOI - 10.1007/s12070-017-1152-z
Subject(s) - medicine , otorhinolaryngology , incidence (geometry) , observational study , otitis , disease , pediatrics , retrospective cohort study , tertiary care , health care , head and neck surgery , public health , family medicine , surgery , pathology , physics , optics , economics , economic growth
This Retrospective observational study was done over a period of 5 years, consisting of 2530 patients with chronic otitis media (COM) attended ENT OPD of a tertiary care hospital of Central India.COM commonly occurs in the age group from 11 to 20 years (37.12%). Females are more predominantly effected than males. Mucosal type (76.4%) is more common. Complications were associated with squamous type of COM.Pus culture showed positive growth of Pseudomonas in 33.9% cases. COM is a common public health problem that is often wrongly trivialized by people. Health awareness campaign, improved health education and easy accessibility to health care facilities can reduce the morbidity and mortality of this disease and therefore can reduce the incidence of this disease.