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Preventing Cerumen Impaction in Nursing Facility Residents
Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 1999Attention to the hearing health of residents is necessary to maintain their functional independence and psychosocial well-being.
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Postgraduate medicine, 1977
The external auditory canal is self-cleaning. Excessive cerumen accumulation usually results from misguided attempts to remove wax and may go unnoticed until a hearing loss occurs. Mechanical removal of the wax or use of a ceruminolytic agent to soften it is recommended--irrigation may contaminate the middle ear space.
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The external auditory canal is self-cleaning. Excessive cerumen accumulation usually results from misguided attempts to remove wax and may go unnoticed until a hearing loss occurs. Mechanical removal of the wax or use of a ceruminolytic agent to soften it is recommended--irrigation may contaminate the middle ear space.
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CERUMEN IMPACTION Prevalence and Detection in Nursing Homes
Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 19931. Many people, including health care professionals, believe that hearing loss is a normal part of aging and that little can be done to improve older adults' hearing. If the staff and physicians believe that hearing loss among nursing home residents is expected due to advanced age, then the likelihood of further evaluation of hearing impairments is ...
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Cerumen Impaction: Diagnosis and Management.
American family physician, 2019Cerumen production is a normal and protective process for the ear canal. However, cerumen should be removed when it causes symptoms (e.g., hearing loss, itching, pain, tinnitus) or prevents assessment of the external auditory canal, the tympanic membrane, or audiovestibular system.
Charlie, Michaudet, John, Malaty
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Ear Pain and Cerumen Impaction
2016This chapter succinctly summarizes the diagnosis and management of common ear-related complaints encountered by primary care and emergency clinicians alike, including otitis media and otitis externa. Attention is also directed at differentiating these relatively benign entities from more sinister diagnoses such as malignant otitis externa and ...
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Procedure Coding: Removal of Impacted Cerumen
AAP Pediatric Coding Newsletter, 2018Since Current Procedural Terminology® provides separate codes for removal of impacted cerumen with and without instrumentation, we must look at 2 different ways of providing and documenting these services.
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