Home Made Pneumatic Otoscopy

Use and teaching of pneumatic otoscopy in a family medicine residency program.

OBJECTIVE To determine to what extent FPs teach and use pneumatic otoscopy and to identify the chief influences on this behaviour. DESIGN Mixed-methods descriptive study conducted between March and May 2011. SETTING The family medicine residency program at Laval University in Quebec city, Que. PARTICIPANTS Directors of the family medicine teaching units (FMTUs), teachers, and residents. ...

Persistent effusion following acute otitis media: tympanometry and pneumatic otoscopy in diagnosis.

Children aged six months to 10 years in one practice who were diagnosed with acute otitis media were examined one, three, six and 12 months after diagnosis by a general practitioner and an otolaryngologist on the same day using pneumatic otoscopy. Tympanometry and pure tone audimetry were also carried out. Tympanograms were combined with the specialist's otoscopy findings to determine whether e...

Pneumatic Otoscopy for the Diagnosis of Conductive Hearing Loss With Normal Tympanic

Objective. To evaluate the usefulness of video pneumatic otoscopy (VPO) for the diagnosis of conductive hearing loss (CHL) with normal tympanic membranes (TM). Study Design. Prospective study. Setting. Tertiary care hospital. Subjects and Methods. Thirty-seven ears with CHL and 9 control ears with normal TMs were included. The VPO was performed preoperatively in all patients. The authors captur...

Home Made: New Media in the Home Mode

This essay investigates the peculiar situation of a new media project which takes as its raw material the home-video archive of a deaf man gone blind. In an attempt to revive this 'lost archive', Planet Usher: An Interactive Home Movie looks to uncover enduring spaces of productivity and, in the process, to make a case for the enduring viability and importance of home modes of production. While...

The value of otoscopy.