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Otitis Media: Antibiotics or Not?

otitis media papercut Aug 22, 2024

We're back to an old question of should we give antibiotics for otitis media? The factors always being weighed up have been around the benefit which includes reduction in pain and resolution versus the side effects of the medication and the potential for infection to progress.

We review a recent systematic review(1) in the Annals of Emergency Medicine:

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