Report by Abdo Sattout, Senior Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine

Search checked by Rachel Jenner, Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Institution: Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether topical analgesics play a role in the symptomatic relief of acute otitis media. A total of 10 papers were found using the reported search with a further paper found fortuitously after the search had been completed, …