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Is a community-based mastoid microsuction service feasible: the audit of a pilot project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Charles Lewis  and
Adel Resouly
Charles Lewis*
Affiliation:
Surgery, 150 Fratton Road, Fratton, Portsmouth PO1 5DH, and the Department of Otolaryngology, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, Portsmouth, Hants PO6 3LY.
Adel Resouly
Affiliation:
Surgery, 150 Fratton Road, Fratton, Portsmouth PO1 5DH, and the Department of Otolaryngology, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, Portsmouth, Hants PO6 3LY.
*
Dr C. H. Lewis, ‘Sunnyside’, 150 Fratton Road, Portsmouth, Hants PO1 5DH. Fax: 01705 861014
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Abstract

Patients who have had a mastoidectomy form a considerable long-term follow-up commitment to their local ENT Department. A community-based mastoid aural toilet pilot project run by a GP is described using an operating microscope and suction apparatus in his surgery. To obtain the necessary information about community treatment, an audit was performed of all mastoidectomy patients from a large general practice in Portsmouth: 57 mastoidectomy patients were reviewed. During the project it was possible to transfer to the community microsuction project the long-term care of most of their mastoidectomy patients who were attending the hospital ENT outpatient clinic.

Keywords

MastoidsurgeryCommunity health services
Type
Audit
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 109 , Issue 10 , October 1995 , pp. 971 - 974
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1995

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References

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