Active clinical trials for "Otitis Media"

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of preemptive pregabalin on post-operative pain reduction after myringoplasty.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether an early schedule of a combination of three doses of PHiD-CV and one dose of PCV13, is superior to three doses of either PCV13 or PHiD-CV.

The aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness of GSK Biologicals' pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (GSK1024850A) in preventing invasive disease caused by S. pneumoniae or H. influenzae and in reducing occurrence of hospital-diagnosed pneumonia cases, tympanostomy tube placement and outpatient antimicrobial prescriptions in children starting vaccination below 18 months of age. These data will be collected from the national registers and will be analyzed in combination with data collected for subjects enrolled in a large scale cluster-randomized study 111442. The study will also assess the immune response to the GSK1024850A vaccine and the impact of the vaccine on occurrence of acute otitis media, carriage, safety in children starting vaccination below 18 months of age.

The National Health Plan 2001-2010 calls for investigation of the feasibility of pneumococcal vaccines for Papau New Guinea. The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Institute of Medical Research, the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and the Department of Paediatrics, University of Western Australia will collaborate to examine very closely the safety of neonatal vaccination, particularly with regard to impact on the development of immunity and response to other vaccines given to infants. This study will also provide a unique opportunity for training of PNG and Australian scientists in both countries.

An interventional, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study will be conducted to investigate the effect of a new probiotic strain Lactobacillus salivarius PS7 on Acute Otitis Media (AOM) in children with recurrent AOM history. The study duration will be 7 months, which includes a 6-month product administration and a 1-month follow-up period. Participants will be randomized assigned to one of the three study groups: the control group; a 3 months probiotic +3 months placebo consumption group and a 6 months probiotic consumption group. The efficacy of the probiotic strain to reduce the incidence of AOM episodes will be assessed by counting AOM episodes occurring in study participants, during the entire intervention and follow-up periods, by bilateral comparison of each of the treatment groups with the control group according to the following hypothesis: "The number of AOM episodes occurring in participants who take the probiotic is the same as that for the participants in the control group. λc = λe". Where λc is the mean incidence of AOM in the control group and λe is the mean incidence of AOM in the groups taking the probiotic strain Lactobacillus salivarius PS7 obtained with 95% confidence interval.

To investigate the incidence of tuba dysfunction (TD) and middle ear (ME) morbidity after radiotherapy (RT) to the Head & Neck and test the effect of auto-inflation of the Eustachian tube (ET) on middle ear effusion with a special designed balloon (Otovent®) and thereby better hearing and ear related quality of life after cancer treatment.

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine was added to the National Immunization Program in Russia in 2014 which could affect the changes in pneumococcal serotypes in growing population. The purpose of this study is to determine the spectrum of serotypes of S. pneumoniae in patients older 18-years: in healthy carriage, in patients with non-invasive and invasive forms of pneumococcal infection. The patients will be divide into several groups: 18-64-years old, 65 years old and older, immunocompromised patients, immunocompetent patients with concomitant diseases and patients from restricted organized collectives. This study is designed to meet the following objectives: To estimate the spectrum of serotypes of S. pneumoniae in adult population in different regions of Russia.

PneuMum is a randomised controlled trial that aims to find out if pneumococcal vaccination for Australian Indigenous mothers, in the last few months of pregnancy or at delivery, can prevent ear disease in infants. Mothers will receive the 23 valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (23vPPV) either: a) during the third trimester of pregnancy; b) soon after child birth; or c) seven months after child birth (control group). The adult diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis vaccine (dTpa) will be used as the control vaccine for the birth dose. The study aims to recruit 210 Indigenous women aged 17-39 years who have an uncomplicated pregnancy. Following recruitment, subjects will be randomly assigned to one of the three groups. Each mother and infant will be followed from pregnancy until the baby is seven months of age. All routinely recommended vaccinations on the standard vaccination schedule will continue to be offered by the subject's vaccine provider in accordance with current clinical practice. The primary outcome will be prevalence of middle ear disease at seven months of age, defined as middle ear effusion or tympanic membrane perforation or acute otitis media. Pneumatic otoscopy, video-otoscopy and tympanometry will be used in the ear examinations. The primary analyses will be a direct comparison of the proportion of infants in the control group who have nasopharyngeal carriage of one or more vaccine type pneumococci at seven months of age compared to infants in each of the other two groups. A similar comparison of the proportion with middle ear disease will be undertaken between the control group and the respective intervention group.

Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) can be particularly difficult to treat as a number of patients do not respond to routine antibiotic or surgical treatments. The current treatment involves administering combination antibiotic anti-inflammatory ear drops such as Ciprodex (ciprofloxacin 0.3% / dexamethasone 0.1%). Although most patients experience a relief of symptoms, a fraction of patients remain refractory to treatment. Recent findings suggest that the addition of N-acetylcysteine (0.5-2%) to Ciprodex is a superior treatment for otitis media with effusion compared to the use of Ciprodex alone.

This study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of the herb Echinacea purpurea and of cranial osteopathic manipulative treatment to prevent otitis media (middle ear infections) in young children.