SA068 - Otitis - Multiple Different Organisms & Multi-drug Resistant! Now What?

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

11:35 AM – 12:25 PM

Location: South Seas H, Level 3

Earn 1 CE Hours

Presenter(s)

Craig Griffin, DVM, DACVD (he/him/his)

Clinician
Animal Dermatology Clinic
Henderson, Nevada, United States

Handouts

Moderator(s)

Leslie Wolff, MRCVS (she/her/hers)

Veterinarian
Animal Clinic of Fort Atkinson
Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, United States

We are seeing more and more otitis externa cases present with multiple different micro-organisms and even different multi drug resistant bacteria. So what do you do? This session will discuss changes in how we identify organisms and how we approach those multiple strains and especially multi drug resistant organisms.

Learning Objectives:

Learn different and newer ways to identify what organism are involved in your otitis externa cases.
Understand what those organisms mean to otitis externa management.
Learn some different therapeutic options that you have in different situations.
Learn keys to managing resistant and poorly responsive micro-organism in chronic otitis cases.