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#'''Floxin Otic''': 5 drops in affected ear BID x 7 days | #'''Floxin Otic''': 5 drops in affected ear BID x 7 days<ref>Clinical Practice Guideline: Acute Otitis Externa Executive Summary. Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery 2014 150: 161 | ||
DOI: 10.1177/0194599813517659 [http://www.aepap.org/sites/default/files/otitis_externa_guia2014-rosenfeld-161-8_0.pdf PDF]</ref> | |||
#*Safe with perforations | #*Safe with perforations | ||
#'''Cipro HC Otic''': 3 drops in affected ear BID x 7 days | #'''Cipro HC Otic''': 3 drops in affected ear BID x 7 days | ||
Revision as of 21:16, 25 July 2014
- Floxin Otic: 5 drops in affected ear BID x 7 days[1]
- Safe with perforations
- Cipro HC Otic: 3 drops in affected ear BID x 7 days
- Contains hydrocortisone to promote faster healing
- Not safe with perforation
- CiproDex: 3 drops in affected ear BID x 7 days
- Similar to Cipro HC but contains Dexamethasone
- Also not recommended with perforations
- Cortisporin Otic (neomycin/polymixin B/hydrocortisone)
- 4 gtt in ear ITD-QID x 7dy
- Use suspension (NOT solution) if possiblity of perforation