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Otitis media in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Pediatrics 1978 August
Thirty-eight of 125 premature infants who were hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) had abnormal tympanic membrane mobility compatible with otitis media. Twenty-five of these 38 had received antibiotics within one week of otoscopic examination and were considered to have either serous otitis or partially treated bacterial otitis media; tympanocentesis was not performed in them. Tympanocentesis was performed in the remaining 13 infants who had not received antibiotics. Bacterial otitis media was confirmed in ten of the 13. Either staphylococcal (six cases) or Gram-negative enteric organisms (four cases) were isolated in cultures obtained by tympanocentesis in these cases. The four cases of Gram-negative infections occurred in infants within six weeks of birth. Nasotracheal intubation for more than seven days was significantly correlated with impaired tympanic membrane mobility compatible with otitis media. Otitis media occurs frequently among premature infants who are hospitalized in an NICU, and it should be looked for in any infant in whom sepsis is clinically suspected.
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