Clinical Categories – GP Guide

ENT

Clinical Sections

Allergic Rhinitis

• 🤧 Clinical Features • 📶 Stepwise Management

Approach to Otalgia

• 👂 Classification of Ear Pain • 📋 Important History • 🔍 Examination and Investigations • 🚩 Otalgia Red Flags

Audiograms

• 👂 What an Audiogram Shows and How to Read It • 🩺 Conductive vs Sensorineural vs Mixed • 📉 Common Patterns You Will See • 🚨 Red Flags: Asymmetric and Sudden Hearing Loss • 🇦🇺 Australian Context: Screening, Ear Health and Workers' Compensation • 🧮 Worked Examples and Common Exam Traps

External Ear Disease

• 🦠 Acute Diffuse Otitis Externa • 🔴 Acute Localised Otitis Externa • 🍄 Otomycosis • ⚠️ Malignant Otitis Externa • 🩹 Perichondritis • 🥊 Auricular Haematoma and Cauliflower Ear

Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis

• 🦠 Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis • 🚨 Peritonsillar Abscess • ✂️ Tonsillectomy and Adenotonsillectomy

Hearing Assessment

• 🔊 Rinne Test • 🎵 Weber Test

Middle-Ear Disease

• 🔴 Acute Otitis Media • 💧 Bullous Myringitis • 🩹 Tympanic Membrane Perforation from Penetrating Injury • 🌊 Otitis Media with Effusion • ⚪ Tympanosclerosis • 🦴 Cholesteatoma

Nasal Polyps

• 🔵 Nasal Polyps • 💊 Aspirin-Exacerbated Respiratory Disease

Neck Lumps

• 🔵 Thyroglossal Duct Cyst • 👶 Sternocleidomastoid Pseudotumour • 🔬 Suspected Lymphoma

Oral Candidiasis

• 🍄 Oral Candidiasis

Persistent Hoarseness

• 🚩 Hoarseness Red Flags • 🧠 Clinical Reasoning • 🧩 High-Yield Diagnostic Patterns • ⏱️ Clinical Priorities and Referral Triggers

Tinnitus

• 🔔 Classification • 🔍 Causes and Aggravating Factors • 🚩 Red Flags • 🩺 Investigation • 💊 Management

Vertigo

• 🌀 Peripheral versus Central Vertigo • 🔄 Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo • 👂 Ménière Disease