While discharging a patient of meningitis due to H. influenzae the essential step you will do:: (A) EEG, (B) Assess developmental milestones, (C) Bilateral evoked auditory response, (D) Refer for physiotherapy
Answer is C. H. influenzae is one of the three M/C/C of childhood otitis media (the other two being Streptococcus pneumoniae and Moraxella catarrhalis). A diagnosis of otitis media is based on the detection by pneumatic otoscopy of fluid in the middle ear and bilateral evoked auditory response.