Guidance
Update information
August 2023: This guideline updates and replaces NICE's guideline on otitis media with effusion in under 12s: surgery (CG60), published in February 2008. The new recommendations are marked [2023].
Some recommendations ending [2008] have been carried over from the previous version of the guideline. We have not reviewed the evidence for these recommendations. In some cases minor changes have been made – for example, to update links, or bring the language and style up to date – without changing the intent of the recommendation.
Minor changes since publication
March 2024: In recommendation 1.6.2, we corrected atelectasis to localised atrophy.