OBJECTIVE/HYPOTHESIS To reconcile conflicting reports and opinions of the value of preoperative coagulation studies for patients undergoing tonsillectomy. STUDY DESIGN Meta-analysis: Articles were identified by MEDLINE search, references from review articles, textbook chapter, and retrieved reports. Independent observers selected prospective trials of patients undergoing tonsillectomy or aden...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Determine revisits and reasons for revisits after adult tonsillectomy. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of multistate ambulatory surgery and hospital databases. METHODS Ambulatory adult tonsillectomies performed as the sole procedure were extracted from the State Ambulatory Surgery databases for New York, Florida, Iowa, and California for 2010. Cases were linked t...

Aims: Secondary bleeding after tonsillectomy is an unavoidable. If it leads to a life-threatening event, it is likely to be associated with a malpractice claim against the surgeon. Very few reports have addressed this event from a medicolegal point of view. Therefore, the present report aimed to investigate litigations following secondary Post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage leading to death or life-t...

BACKGROUND Pain control in children is still a therapeutic dilemma. Preschool patients are affected from undesirable effects of postoperative pain more than adults. Tonsillectomy is associated with a high incidence of postoperative pain, not only complicating the recovery, but also delaying patients discharge. OBJECTIVES Despite employing different surgical and anesthetic strategies in post-t...

BACKGROUND Intracapsular tonsillectomy (IT) has been advocated as a treatment for pediatric obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). However, evidence in the literature utilizing polysomnography (PSG) is limited. OBJECTIVE To examine the experience at a tertiary children's hospital to evaluate the effectiveness and risks of intracapsular tonsillectomy compared to total tonsillectomy (TT) for treating p...

this study aimed to determine the relationship between suturing and electro-cautery methods of post-tonsillectomy homeostasis in imam khomeini hospital- kermanshah. an analytical study was performed on admitted patient's profiles from 2002-2004. data collection sheet was applied to extract all variables. descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis. during that period 915 ...

Introduction: Tonsillectomy is a painful surgical procedure accompanied by moderate to severe pain several days after surgery. Despite the often tonsillectomy, under-treatment of has been consistently reported. The cause this inadequate education health care professionals regarding management. Objectives: aim study was assess perioperative treatment given tonsillectomy patients in otorhinolaryn...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background : coblation tonsillectomy is a new surgical technique and demands further research to be proven as a suitable and standard method of tonsillectomy. this study compares coblation and traditional tonsillectomy techniques in view of their advantages and complications. methods : in a prospective double-blind randomized controlled trial inform...

Abstract Objective To assess whether children undergoing tonsillectomy were receiving adequate analgesia postoperatively and comparison made against national standards. Implementation of new ibuprofen dosage guidance, reducing opioid prescribing, assessment this impacts re-admission rates for post pain bleeding. Method Retrospective audit tonsillectomies performed over a 5-month period in 2021 ...

INTRODUCTION Although tonsillectomy has a very long history as one of the most common surgical procedures in childhood, post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage is not uncommon and occasionally life threatening. Although primary post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage that occurs within 24 hours of surgery is often caused by insufficient intraoperative hemostasis, delayed hemorrhage is frequently related to the rej...