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How we do it: Stapes surgery without postoperative packing of the external auditory canal
Author(s) -
Hirvonen T.P.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
clinical otolaryngology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1749-4486
pISSN - 1749-4478
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2273.2004.00972.x
Subject(s) - medicine , auditory canal , surgery , ear canal , stapes , stapes surgery , middle ear , otosclerosis , radiology
Keypoints • Packing of the external auditory canal after ear surgery has been a clinical practice to assure haemostasis and to allow reposited ear canal skin to heal. • The healing of minor transcanal incision without any postoperative tamponation or local medication has not been reported. • The treatment rationale was local anaesthesia, tympanomeatal flap through a speculum, careful reposition of the flap, and neither packing nor ear drops to the external auditory canal postoperatively. • The postoperative complications were rare and temporary. • The external auditory canals remained patent postoperatively in significant proportion of the patients despite some blood clot accumulation. Thus the need for scheduled follow‐up visits with this treatment rationale seems to be reduced.