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Non-Covid clinical crises: Sudden sensorineural hearing loss
Pulse’s series on how to manage non-Covid subacute problems when you’re out of your comfort zone and there’s minimal help available
Non-Covid clinical crises: Possible cholesteatoma
Pulse’s series on how to manage non-Covid subacute problems when you’re out of your comfort zone and there’s minimal help available
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GPs should not examine children’s throats ‘unless absolutely necessary’
GPs and other doctors should not examine children’s throats unless it is ‘essential’, due to the risk of transmission of coronavirus (Covid-19), the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has said.
Removing earwax is down to GP practices, says new NICE guideline
GP practices should provide earwax removal services rather than referring patients to specialists, according to the latest NICE recommendations.
Losing my auriscope… and my moral compass
Copperfield
Falling on deaf ears
Copperfield
Practices should remove earwax causing hearing loss, NICE recommends
Practices should offer to remove earwax in adult patients if it contributes to hearing loss or other symptoms, according to a draft guidance released by NICE.
One-sided throat discomfort with dysphagia – what’s the diagnosis?
A 69-year-old lady
‘This ulcer is not healing’
The case A
Head and neck clinic – neck lumps
Case A previously
GPs advised not to prescribe antibiotics for ear infection
Antibiotics should not be routinely prescribed for acute otitis media in children, as most will improve without them, NICE have advised in a new draft guideline.
‘What is this lump in my mouth?’
A fit and
Referral of the month – recurrent vertigo
Dear Dr Murdin,
Guideline of the month: managing tinnitus
The guideline The
