Methods: We investigated the efficacy of sucralfate together with the TW technique on post-tonsillectomy morbidity in children. Our hypothesis was that the advantages of the TW technique might be improved by the protective coating effect of sucralfate on post-tonsillectomy morbidity. Patients were examined and scored clinically by their parents on the day of the operation and at the end of the ...

OBJECTIVE To conduct an adequately powered, prospective, randomised, controlled trial comparing adult dissection tonsillectomy using either ultrasonic scalpel, bipolar electrocautery, bipolar radiofrequency or 'cold steel' dissection. METHODS Three hundred patients were randomised into four tonsillectomy technique groups. The operative time, intra-operative bleeding, post-operative pain, tons...

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: Various hemostatic and analgesic agents and techniques have been used to reduce intraoperative and postoperative hemorrhage and pain in tonsillectomy.Aims and objective; The current study aimed to compare the effect of using adrenaline plus tramadol and normal saline in maintaining hemostasis and control of pain in cold dissection tonsillectomy.   Materials and Methods: This pros...

Aim of this study was to compare post-operative recovery over 14 days in children submitted to tonsillectomy using a bipolar radiofrequency-based plasma device (Coblation, Evac 70, ArthroCare Corp, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) to cold dissection. Paediatric patients (n = 42) aged 5-16 years old with chronic tonsillitis underwent tonsillectomy using cold dissection with suture ligatures or a plasma devic...

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...

Objective: To compare the frequency of post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage and severity of pain by Dissection and Diathermy method of tonsillectomy. Material and Methods: All the cases (100) that presented during six months of duration were included in the study by Simple Random Sampling in the Department of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, Holy Family Hospital, Rawalpindi from November 2009 to April 2...

Introduction: Tonsillectomy is the one of the most common types of surgery in children, and is often accompanied by post-operative pain and discomfort. Methods of pain control such as use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), narcotics, and local anesthetics have been used, but each have their own particular side effects. In this study we investigated the effect of ketamine on post...