Chronic otitis media

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	682003
Registration status:	Indigenous, Standard 05/12/2017
Definition:	The term used to describe a variety of signs, symptoms, and physical findings that result from the long-term damage to the middle ear by infection and inflammation. This includes the following: severe retraction or perforation of the tympanic membrane (a hole in the tympanic membrane ) scarring or erosion of the small, sound conducting bones of the middle ear chronic or recurring drainage from the ear inflammation causing erosion of the bony cover or the facial nerve, balance canals, or cochlea (hearing organ) erosion of the bony borders of the middle ear or mastoid, resulting in infection spreading to the meninges (the coverings of the brain) or brain presence of cholesteatoma persistence of fluid behind an intact tympanic membrane.

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Reference documents:	University of Maryland Medical Center. Ear Infections 2017. Viewed 2 August 2017, http://www.umm.edu/programs/hearing/services/ear-infections
Relational attributes
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Chronic otitis media type Indigenous, Standard 05/12/2017 Chronic otitis media type code N[N] Indigenous, Standard 05/12/2017 Closing the Gap/Child Health Check Initiative: Ear, nose and throat operation summary form DSS Indigenous, Standard 05/12/2017 Patient—chronic otitis media type, code N[N] Indigenous, Standard 05/12/2017