TY - JOUR AU - singh gaur, Raghuvendra AU - Chandel, Swati AU - Gupta, Chhavi PY - 2022/09/08 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - CHRONIC SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA COMPLICATIONS SCENARIO DURING COVID 19 PANDEMIC JF - Global Journal of Public Health Medicine JA - Glob. j. public health med. VL - 4 IS - 2 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.37557/gjphm.v4i2.161 UR - https://www.gjphm.org/index.php/gjphm/article/view/161 SP - 656-663 AB - <p><em>Introduction: In December 2019, world health organisation (WHO) declared corona virus disease </em><em>(COVID 19) led to disruption in routine and non-emergency medical facilities. This increased the </em><em>morbidity risk associated with some of the preventable conditions, one of them being chronic </em><em>suppurative otitis media (CSOM). Methods: Retrospective data was collected between March’s 2019- </em><em>2021 in the department of ENT and head neck surgery, BRLSABVM medical college, Rajnandgaon, </em><em>CG,.India.. All chronic otitis media patients with or without complications were included Results: In our </em><em>study the number of complicated cases which were 30 patients out of the 402 patients, the rate comes </em><em>out to be 7.4%. In this study, before the pandemic that is form march 2019 to march 2020 the percentage </em><em>of complicated cases were found to be 7 (23.6%) and during the pandemic that is from April 2020- </em><em>March 2021 it was 23(76.3 %) that shows increase in number of complications during pandemic. Most </em><em>common age group involved was 21 to 40 years. The most common Extra cranial complication was </em><em>mastoid abscess (36.6%), followed by facial nerve palsy (FNP) 20% The most common Intracranial </em><em>complication was meningitis (16.6%) followed by brain abscess (6.6%) and extradural abscess (3.3%). </em><em>Conclusion: In our study we could find that there was a change in CSOM behaviour in terms of </em><em>complications in prepandemic and pandemic period. Study shows rise in complication rate from 7 cases </em><em>during the prepandemic times to 23 cases during pandemic times. This shows the importance of timely </em><em>intervention which should be available to treat common diseases like CSOM to avoid the possible </em><em>complications and their sequelae.</em></p> ER -