Healio

Office-based tympanostomy tube placement: A safe and efficient alternative

Tympanostomy tubes are commonly placed to treat chronic otitis media with effusion and recurrent acute otitis media. In fact, tympanostomy tube placement is the most common ambulatory surgery ...
Healio

Tympanostomy tubes: Eustachian tube bypass with imperfections

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Insertion of tympanostomy tubes is often recommended to improve middle ear ventilation in children with acute ...
Medscape

FDA OKs First System for In-Office Tympanostomy Tube Placement

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new system for placement of tympanostomy tubes in children with otitis media that does not require general anesthesia. The Tubes Under Local ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

The Role of Adjuvant Adenoidectomy and Tonsillectomy in the Outcome of the Insertion of Tympanostomy Tubes

Otitis media is the most common medical problem in young children. The usual surgical treatment is myringotomy with insertion of tympanostomy tubes. There is debate about the usefulness of concomitant ...
Medscape

PAS 2009: Pediatric Tympanostomy Tube Use Steadily Rising; Trend Shows Significant Overuse

May 6, 2009 (Baltimore, Maryland) — The insertion of tympanostomy tubes for recurrent ear infections has increased 35% in the past decade, and the number of visits for otitis media has decreased by ...
Business Wire

Newly Published Health Economics Study Demonstrates In-Office Ear Tube Procedures with Hummingbird TTS Significantly Reduce Healthcare Costs

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Preceptis Medical, Inc., a pioneer in pediatric ENT innovation, today announced the publication of a health economic study assessing the financial impact of ...
FierceBiotech

Otonomy Announces Positive Results from Two Phase 3 Trials of AuriPro™ in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Ear Tube Placement Surgery

SAN DIEGO, July 8, 2014 -- Otonomy, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapeutics for diseases and disorders of the inner ...
News Medical

Tympanostomy tubes have no long-term benefits for childhood ear infections

There is no long-term benefit to surgically placing tympanostomy tubes in a young child's ears to reduce the rate of recurrent ear infections during the ensuing two years compared with giving oral ...
Business Insider

Tusker Medical Announces First Patient Enrollment in Pivotal Clinical Trial Assessing In-Office Pediatric Tympanostomy Tube Placement

MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Tusker Medical, Inc. today announced the enrollment of the first in-office patients in the OTTER Study, the pivotal clinical study for Tusker's TULA ...
Business Wire

Preceptis Medical Announces New CMS HCPCS Code for Pediatric Tympanostomy Procedures

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Preceptis Medical, Inc. announced today that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized the creation of a new add-on G code to identify and ...
Nasdaq

Smith+Nephew announces US launch of the revolutionary Tula® System for placement of ear tubes

LONDON, May 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Smith+Nephew (LSE:SN, NYSE:SNN), the global medical technology business, is pleased to announce the market introduction and first commercial procedure of its Tula ...