Case Scenario # 1: Medicine
According to Venekamp et al. article on Antibiotics for Acute Otitis media in children, antibiotics are not valid at reducing symptoms related to the Acute Otitis Media (AOM) disease. Acute Otitis Media is common among children causing pain, which results in sleeping and feeding problems, and it is characterized by fever (Venekamp et al. 2). This assertion implies that the significant impact of AOM is pain, although fever is a regular symptom. Therefore, the administration of antibiotics should be an aid in reducing the adverse effects of temperature and strain. However, Venekamp et al.’s research indicate that antibiotics administration did not reduce the children’s pain within twenty-four hours (Venekamp et al. 5). Thus, the article illustrates that antibiotics do not reduce AOM symptoms. Concerning the scenario where a small boy is in fever and malaise, the antibiotics will not decrease the pain the child is going through but might cause adverse such as diarrhea, vomiting, and itching. Therefore, the article helps in answering the question and states that antibiotics do not help in reducing AOM symptoms, although the results of the findings conflicts with Hum et al.’s article, Adverse Events of Antibiotics Used to Treat Acute Otitis Media in Children: A Systematic Meta-Analysis.
According to Hum et al. research findings, antibiotics can help reduce Acute Otitis Media symptoms, indicating that practitioners should consider the antibiotic administration to deal with AOM. The adverse effects of using medicines varied depending on antibiotic administered; for instance, azithromycin administration resulted in 2.2 percentage of participants to have diarrhea while the placebo affected 6.9 percent (Hum et al. 4). The results illustrate that antibiotics effect on reducing the AOM effects varies depending on the type used. Therefore, antibiotics can be utilized in dealing with the AOM symptoms only that the practitioners should choose wisely on the ones that work. Thus, the article provides an answer to the case scenario by indicating the influence of administrating antibiotics. This article conflicts with the Antibiotics for Acute Otitis media in children, concluding that Antibiotics should not be utilized. The strength of the case studies is that the participants included children having AOM disease.
Works Cited
Hum, Stephanie W., et al. “Adverse Events of Antibiotics Used to Treat Acute Otitis Media in Children: A Systematic Meta-Analysis.” The Journal of Pediatrics 215, 2019, pp. 139-143, sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2019.08.043
Venekamp RP, Sanders SL, Glasziou PP, Del Mar CB, Rovers MM. “Antibiotics for Acute Otitis Media in Children.” Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 6, 2015, sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD000219.pub4