Complications of Suppurative Otitis Media - A Retrospective Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital

Suppurative otitis media is quite a common disease in India and more so in Odisha. Because of inadequate treatment as well as lack of treatment, the disease assumes a chronicity and subsequently different complications ensues. Western Odisha and adjacent Chhatisgarh being poor economically and also having a poor health care facility, poor people of this area are at a higher risk of developing such complications. Therefore, a retrospective study over a period of two years was carried out in VSS Medical College, Burla-Sambalpur (Odisha) to have a data regarding the incidence and various pattern of presentations of complications of suppurative otitis media.