🩺 Symptom Guide
Hearing Loss
Assess urgently for sudden sensorineural hearing loss, stroke/neurological causes, traumatic injury, severe infection, foreign body/obstruction, and complications needing same-day specialist review.
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Red flags
- Sudden hearing loss developing over 3 days or less
- rapidly worsening hearing loss
- unilateral hearing loss with neurological symptoms
- head trauma
First actions / assessment
- ABCDE first if unwell
- clarify whether the loss is sudden or gradual, unilateral or bilateral, fluctuating or persistent, and whether there is associated tinnitus, ear pain, discharge, vertigo, facial weakness, trauma, recent infection, noise exposure, or neurological symptoms
- record full vitals and perform focused ENT and neurological examination
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