
Ear, Nose, and Throat Issues in Primary Care, An Issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice
- 1st Edition, Volume 52-1 - February 17, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Donna M. Kaminski
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 1 6 4 6 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 1 6 4 7 - 0
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, guest editor Dr. Donna M. Kaminski brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Ear, Nose, and Throat Issues in Primary Care. Top experts cover common and uncommon ear, nose, and throat issues for the primary care provider, including timely articles on swallowing disorders, head and neck cancers, Bell’s Palsy, hearing loss, rhinitis, and more.
- Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including vestibular disorders; sleep apnea; hearing loss; tinnitus; sinusitis; vocal cord disorders; TMJ disorders; and more
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on ear, nose, and throat issues in primary care, offering actionable insights for clinical practice
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Foreword
- Preface
- Otitides: Acute and Chronic Otitis Media and Externa
- Key points
- Introduction
- Anatomy of the ear
- Etiology and risk factors
- Clinical presentation and diagnosis
- Current treatment options
- Complications and their management
- Epidemiology and risk factors
- Pathophysiology
- Clinical presentation
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Monitoring
- Complications
- Prevention
- Complementary treatment for otitides
- Clinics care points
- Vestibular Disorders
- Key points
- Introduction to vestibular disorders
- Vertigo, dizziness, and tinnitus
- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
- Treatment of posterior canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
- Vestibular neuritis or vestibular neuronitis
- Diagnosis of vestibular neuronitis
- Ménière’s disease
- Definitive diagnostic criteria:
- Probable diagnostic criteria
- Clinics care points
- Tonsillitis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Background
- Pathophysiology
- Causes
- Risk factors
- Clinical symptoms and signs
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Complementary and alternative therapies
- Complications
- Prognosis
- Clinics care points
- Rhinitis in Primary Care
- Key points
- Introduction
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Special populations
- Complementary and alternative treatment
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea
- Key points
- History
- Epidemiology
- Pathophysiology
- Clinical evaluation
- Testing options for obstructive sleep apnea
- Diagnosing obstructive sleep apnea
- Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Tinnitus
- Key points
- Introduction
- Incidence/prevalence
- Classifications
- Etiologies
- Evaluation
- Management
- Current research topics
- Patient education points
- Summary
- Case study
- Clinics care points
- Hearing Loss: Unmet Needs in a Digital Age
- Key points
- Introduction and background
- Definitions
- Etiology
- Clinical history
- Evaluation
- Treatments
- Prevention
- Discussion: challenges and future directions
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Sinusitis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Clinical signs and symptoms
- Diagnosis and criteria
- Physical examination
- Diagnostic tests
- Medical management
- Emerging therapies/emerging treatment
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Declaration of artifical intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process
- Pharyngitis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Etiology
- Clinical presentation
- Evaluation
- Treatment
- Emerging therapies
- Complications
- Recurrence management
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Bell’s Palsy
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Pathogenesis
- Coronavirus disease 2019 and Bell’s palsy
- Clinical presentation
- Examination
- Diagnostic testing
- Clinical assessment tools
- Prognosis
- Current controversies
- Medical/pharmacologic management
- Patient monitoring
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Vocal Cord Disorders
- Key points
- Introduction
- Anatomy
- History/physical examination
- Definitions
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Head and Neck Cancers
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Burden of disease
- Pathogenesis
- Clinical presentation
- Cancer management
- Goals and principles of treatment
- Patient monitoring and side effects
- Emerging therapies
- Survivorship care plan
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Temporomandibular Junction Disorders
- Key points
- Introduction
- History
- Definitions
- Epidemiology
- Etiology
- Discussion
- Evaluation/diagnosis
- Treatment
- Non-pharmacologic therapy
- Pharmacologic therapy
- Osteopathic manual therapy
- Injections
- Alternative therapy
- Prognosis
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Dysphagia
- Key points
- Background
- Clinical presentation
- Clinical workup
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 52-1
- Published: February 17, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443316463
- eBook ISBN: 9780443316470
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Donna M. Kaminski
Affiliations and expertise
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset Family Practice Family Medicine Residency Program Assistant Program Director, Somerville, NJ, USA