Prophylactic ciprofloxacin drops after tympanostomy tube insertion.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of prophylactic ciprofloxacin drops in decreasing the incidence of post-tympanostomy otorrhea, and the relation between middle ear content and post-tympanostomy otorrhea.

Methods: One hundred and fifty patients aged 3-14 years underwent tympanostomy and tube insertion at the Prince Rashid Ben Al-Hasan Hospital, Al-Husn, Jordan during the interval between February 2000 to January 2003. The patients were randomized into 3 groups: group 1 (control group) received no antibiotic drops, group 2 received a single dose of ciprofloxacin drops intraoperatively and group 3 received an intraoperative dose followed by 5-day postoperative course.

Physiological training in Jordan.

The hypobaric chamber is designed as a teaching aid in providing orientation for some of the physiological stresses in flight. Reactions during chamber training vary from mild ear block to neurocirculatory collapse. This is a retrospective study on reactions from 1986-94 in the hypobaric chamber training unit at King Hussien Medical Centre in Jordan; 39 cases were reported among 705 trainees in a 12-person rectangular hypobaric chamber.