2007, Number 2
Identification of ear disease and hearing loss in school children from a rural community, done by first level attention physicians
Martínez WMC, Noguéz TL, Laguna BER
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Language: Spanish
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Page: 63-67
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ABSTRACT
Background: First level attention in health offers integral, preventive, healing and rehabilitation activities, as well as opportune detection of the disabilities (PreveR- Dis), for that the third level should support with instruments and training.Objective: To qualify doctors of first level attention in the diagnosis and treatment of hearing illness and in the use of detection tests of auditory loss in school.
Material and methods: A course shop of 30 hours about otoscopy, hearing cleaning and test of hearing loss detection was imparted to 20 physicians and their auxiliary personal for unit who work in six health centers and three mobile units in San Joaquin, Queretaro.
Results: During two months 2,117 children, inhabitants of 68 communities, were attended; 366 (17.28%) of them were treated of external and middle hear illness; 174 children were diagnosed as: 82 (52%) without pathology; 22 (15%) with wax; 29 (20%) with high breathing illness with ototubaritis and 14 (9%) with hearing loss of variable degree, four of them had adaptation of auxiliary auditory and language rehabilitation.
Conclusions: The use of simple tools, as otoscopy and methods of detection, allowed physicians to diagnose in a more efficient manner auditory loss than interrogation.
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