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is pocket guide attempts to define principles of practice that should produce high-quality
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pocket guide should not be considered exclusive of other methods of care reasonably directed at
obtaining the same results. e ultimate judgment concerning the propriety of any course of
conduct must be made by the clinician aer consideration of each individual patient situation.
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Abbreviations
AOM, acute otitis media; BMT, bilateral myringotomy and tubes; CHL, conductive hearing
loss; KAS, key action statement; MEE, middle-ear effusion; OCEBM, Oxford Centre for
Evidence-Based Medicine; OME, otitis media with effusion; PE, pressure equalization;
SNHL, sensorineural hearing loss; TM, tympanic membrane; TTO, tympanostomy tube
otorrhea; URI, upper respiratory infection
Source
Rosenfeld RM, Tunkel DE, Schwartz SR, et al. Clinical Practice Guideline: Tympanostomy
Tubes in Children (Update). Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2022;166(1_suppl):S1-S55.
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