{"id":314,"date":"2021-03-10T02:18:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T02:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=314"},"modified":"2021-03-10T02:18:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T02:18:23","slug":"updated-cpg-acute-otitis-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/updated-cpg-acute-otitis-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated CPG: Acute Otitis Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Acute_otitis_media\/\">Acute Otitis Media<\/a> CPG has been updated by the CPG Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The Key points for the CPG are<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Do not accept otitis media as the sole diagnosis in a sick febrile young child without exclusion of more serious causes (see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Febrile_Child\">Febrile child<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Diagnosis requires acute onset and an abnormal ear examination with signs of middle ear inflammation and middle ear effusion<\/li>\n<li>Avoid the routine use of antibiotic treatment for acute otitis media<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acute otitis media was an existing Victorian CPG and was endorsed by PIC on 18 February 2021. The revision was considered by interstate reviewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,28,9503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}