Mastoiditis
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Ear pain!
I see it almost every shift in the ED. Most of the time it is pretty routine stuff, otitis media, swimmer's ear, occasionally a foreign body in the case of some adventurous toddlers.
Bottom line, not really emergencies, MOST OF THE TIME!
But what happens when ear pain presents in a really sick patient, who's at risk for serious life threatening complications if they are not managed appropriately today, right now?
Today on the Medgeeks podcast we're talking Mastoiditis!
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| 0:00.0 | Ear pain. I see it almost every shift in the ED. |
| 0:04.0 | Most of the time it's pretty routine stuff, |
| 0:06.3 | otitis media, swimmer's ear, |
| 0:08.7 | occasionally a foreign body in the case of some adventurous toddlers. |
| 0:13.0 | Bottom line, not really emergencies, most of the time. |
| 0:17.0 | But what happens when ear pain presents in a really sick patient |
| 0:21.0 | who's at risk for serious life-threatening complications if they're not managed appropriately today right now. |
| 0:27.0 | Today on the Medgeeks podcast we're talking mastoiditis. Hello, I'm Hello everybody welcome back to the med geeks podcast this is Eric Gordon glad to have you with us |
| 0:48.7 | today we're talking about mastoiditis when ear pain is a lot more than just regular old ear pain. |
| 0:54.4 | At the end of the episode we're going to be answering a couple questions. |
| 0:57.2 | One was a follow-up question sent into Ask Medgeeks.com about last week's |
| 1:01.2 | episode on hypercalcemia and we've also got another question about viral pneumonia. |
| 1:06.4 | But first let's get started on mastoiditis. So what is it? Let's define mastoiditis. |
| 1:11.4 | It's inflammation of the air cells within the mastoiditis. It's inflammation of the air cells |
| 1:14.4 | within the mastoid process of the temporal bone, |
| 1:17.6 | which of course sits right there just posterior |
| 1:20.6 | to the ear, bilaterally. |
| 1:22.4 | Almost always this is a complication of acute |
| 1:25.2 | otitis media. Overall, it's pretty rare accounting for less than 1% of patients |
| 1:30.6 | with AOM and it's most common in young children just like Otitis |
| 1:35.3 | media so that makes sense risk factors would be young age old age |
| 1:40.1 | immunocompromised, so diabetes, chronic steroid users, HIV, etc. |
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