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everybody this is Rhys barber from audiology associates thank you very much
watching ear wax removal compilation video today so we have three patients in
this video so three patients that come through clinic in the last few days now
what we can see with this first patient they have some very hard ear wax are
certainly from the outer part of the ear canal here so we're using the standard
sizes zoellner tube to loosen the ear wax on the ear canal wall which lifts it as you can
see there allows us to start pulling away chunks from there and hopefully try
and get away in a larger piece you can see the ear wax itself is quite sticky and
quite stretchy so we need to really maneuver this ear wax away from the ear
canal walls you can see it's just starting to move there so if we can take
it from this right side ear canal wall as you're looking at it here we'll probably
be able to bend it out and away from the ear canal we are just starting to see it
move a little bit now lifting from the base you can see just so sticky this as
we're lifting it from one corner the top of the ear wax then we'll stick to the
opposite corner of the ear canal here we go working its way out into the bowl of the
ear canal they just keep wiggling this up and down inching it forwards there we
are so go into the bowl of the ear canal here we go so that's the front end of
the ear wax it looks like a little bit broke off there we are at the entrance to the
canal so I'll just use the zoellner tube just to tidy that up and take that away
see it's quite thick sticky ear wax well coming away you can see a little bit
deeper into the ear canal looks like you can yep there we are you can see is a little
bit further in so this is obviously quite a large chunk of ear wax in this canal
that just broke off halfway down because some of this skin out of my view
there
here we go working it down the ear canal trying to maintain a suction grip on it
while we wiggle it up and down little pieces breaking away with the suction
there we are that was the rear end of that large
chunk of ear wax now this still more so we need to get this piece away as well
this is very deep in the ear canal this one so sitting just in front of the
eardrum so you can see that this ear wax was actually one continuous piece and it's
backed all the way up down to the eardrum itself so just gently taking away these
pieces now there we go it's lifting and bringing the ear wax forwards
trying to get a good grip on the bottom there we go I can see where they would
all come away a little bit here up in the what is called the attic region so
in the top portion of the ear canal there just peel that down to get rid of that
here we go oh yeah there's the eardrum
so this is what we remove so this was all from one ear so you can see it was
quite a substantial piece of ear wax altogether so just under an inch and out
or just over an inch and a half there so this is our second patient in the
compilation now this patients come through obviously being using q-tips
we've got a very indented Center to the ear wax and you can see the outer sections
are coming further towards the camera so down the ear canal a little bit more so just
kind of probe it with the standard size zoellner tube first of all just to see how
tough this is the ear wax itself looks really hard so we hopefully could get
this away in one piece just trying to test the edges of this ear wax to see if we
can lift it or move it it looks really tough so what we're going to do is use
the crocodile forceps now just to get down the side of the ear wax using the
underside of the forceps lifting slightly so we can get in a little bit
further and then trying to get a grip now you can see we've got a very shallow grip on
that ear wax there so lifting again trying to get underneath there now as we pull
you see the whole thing is moving so it allows us to get a much better grip then
and try and bring this out in one large piece if possible
here we go it's really starting to move now it's loosened from where it was
stuck in the ear canal that's the front end there and you can see the ear canal there
you can see what it's been quite red and aggravated in there so this was the
piece so two centimetres long so quite a substantial piece the larger left-hand
side is the front end and obviously that's where it goes into the canal
there at the back end there on the right side so last patient the compilation
today looks like a little bit of softer ear wax this one so it's on the tube coming
out getting a grip on the front end of this ear wax so you can see it's very soft
getting sucked into the machine but there we've got a grip on that ear wax now a
little bit broke away but did you see the whole chunk lift upwards so it means
it's detached it from the ear canal wall gives us a better chance now getting
this out in one piece if possible so try to maintain a good suction grip well
bringing the ear wax forwards towards the camera now there we go
you can see a long strip of dead dry skin on the back of that there there's
the eardrum so all came out where one piece so this is the
other side of the of this patient so you see you're quite a large chunk here as
well so same thing again we can use the standard size zoellner tube but you can
see that ear wax is quite firmly stuck in there so I'm not coming away from the
ear canal walls as much as we'd like be can you see the gap at the top so this would
be a perfect perfect piece of ear wax to use the st. barts hook on so we're going to
go behind and draw this forward lots of pople ask we don't use the hook so often
it's you've got up a really good gap to be able to get the hook through safely
and you've got to know you're not too deep in the ear canal
but the showing you drum which is why it doesn't come out too often so you can
see here this is what we removed from this patient so quite large pieces and
long bits of dry skin
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