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hi everybody this is Rhys Barber from
audiology associates thank you very much
watch now your actionable video today
taking the trip down memory lane
today these are one of these the first
two videos I ever uploaded to YouTube
they we didn't do voice overs back then
so a few people have asked if we can go
back over some of the earlier videos and
voice them over so I thought I'd do two
today it does feel a little bit strange
seeing this because obviously I haven't
seen these in poor a couple of years so
we've got a very plugged up ear here
we've got so we've introduced a little
bit of olive oil really blocked up the
ear canal so I'm using the standard size
on the tube here because it's very very
plugged what I'm trying to do is hold on
to the ear wax there and wiggle it back and
forth
this was the wiggle in its earliest form
so it's ahem it's a bit it's a little
bit rough around the edges but you've
got a little bit of wiggle there we're
trying to maneuver this out basically
just trying to pull the sides and you
can see we use the same basic techniques
which we'll try to pull all the sides in
first or collapse it into the center and
pull it forwards you can see there's a
little bit of white skin to the right
hand side you can just see it being
exposed as I'm wiggling back and for
Grad was wiggling a little socks off
here to get this out okay I slowed this
down just so you can see as it starts to
pull force here we've seen a little bit
more our white skin means it's moving
forwards it's coming out of the ear canal so
luckily they said this blockage was
right at the entrance to the ear canal so
not too deep but really fully form to
that ear canal wall and they don't just see
it coming away all that dead white skin
underneath coming with it obviously
these videos changed over the years from
input from yourselves so be interesting
for you to see how they've changed as
well so the others the plug can way
really nicely and we didn't used to do
shots in the ear canal either
unfortunately so you'll have to take my
word for it they was lovely and clear
this patient came through we this is the
second patient the compilation by the
way sorry this patient came through with
a very blocked at via ear canal they
actually had some cotton wall jammed in
there so what I can see is the darker
material you can see at the bottom
sometimes the cot mobile age and
it'll darken and harden up as well so it
becomes quite black but you can see as
soon as we start teasing this apart that
wiggle coming into play again there that
we can see the fibers starting to pull
apart in this cotton wall but so we know
we're dealing with a cotton wall but
here and I'm trying to pull this apart
though obviously this was still in the
relative of the early days of the using
the endoscope of micro suction for us
normally what I would do now is go
straight in with the crocodile forceps
and pull this out we did actually manage
to break a chunk away they insert come
away so I would say there's probably two
two beds of cotton wool in here for the
people in the u.s. cotton wall these
q-tips okay same same thing so what you
can see now is as we get a grip on this
back section we start pulling this down
maybe I'm really trying to get this deep
a bit it's feel strains are looking back
on it I would I be in there now with a
set of crocodile forceps and this will
be out in second but obviously back then
we used a little bit of a little bit of
suction to try and remove this the
difficulty of a suction which obviously
we know now is that when you try and
suction cotton wall it just draws the
air through the cotton more so you don't
always get a really good grip we have
can actually get a nice grip on that
section of the YV cotton will even sorry
there it's not really wanting to budge
from the outer part of the ear canal now
we could either go either I suppose with
the Jobson horn now or we keep going
with a pair of crocodile forceps but I'm
still trying to get this out using a
little bit of suction
there you go actually got allocate the
forceps there that was a little bit
wider so we've got a grip on that oak
dissection and here we go look at the
size that can actually based on those
forceps you might be a very narrow ear canal
looking at it there we are so that's
come away there we go thank you very
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