New view for diagnosis acute otitis media

Purpose: Acute otitis media (AOM) is one of the most common diagnoses in childhood and one of the most frequent causes for patient encounters in the ambulatory setting. Teaching otoscopic exams is difficult due to limitation of visibility of the tympanic membrane (TM) by both teacher and student simultaneously. A device, Oto, has been developed that turns an iPhone into an otoscope and allows for visualization of the TM by more than one person at a time and for recording pictures. The purpose of this study was to evaluate …