🩺 Symptom Guide
Ear Pain
Assess urgently for mastoiditis, malignant otitis externa, severe otitis externa/media with complications, referred pain, foreign body, and serious ENT infection.
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Red flags
- Severe pain with toxic appearance
- post-auricular swelling/tenderness or protruding ear
- facial nerve weakness
- vertigo
First actions / assessment
- ABCDE first if unwell
- record full vitals and assess pain severity, hydration, hearing change, discharge, fever, and mental status
- clarify onset, unilateral versus bilateral pain, discharge, hearing loss, vertigo, fever, recent URTI, swimming, trauma, instrumentation, foreign body risk, dental/throat symptoms, diabetes, and immunosuppression
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