The effects on quality of life (QoL) in adult patients with chronic tonsillitis are multidimensional. Tonsillectomy has been and is still the standard for treating these patients, who fulfil certain clinical criteria, and is thus the main determinant in the change of QoL. The reduction in severity and frequency of symptoms, health care utilization, physician visits and days off work are major f...

Abstract Background Tonsillectomy is one of the most common procedures in otorhinolaryngology practice where analgesics are required for pain-relief especially children. To compare efficacy using peritonsillar infiltration lidocaine Hcl versus intravenous preincisional lornoxicam reducing post tonsillectomy pain. Results Prospective, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study. Ninety-...

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...

Introduction: Tonsillectomy is one of the most common surgical operations and has such complications as pain, hemorrhage and laryngospasm. Pain management is of vital importance in order to reduce the suffering and restlessness in children having undergone tonsillectomy. Different studies differ in their findings as to the use of ketamine for postoperative analgesia. The aim of this study was ...

Coblation is a new soft tissue surgical technique that is being used for tonsillectomy. Published results show a significant decrease in the amount of post-operative pain experienced by patients undergoing coblation tonsillectomy. There has been no published work to date on the incidence of post-operative haemorrhage. From August 2001 to November 2002 one surgeon performed 36 coblation tonsille...

AIM To assess the effect of peritonsillar infiltration of ketamine and tramadol on post tonsillectomy pain and compare the side effects. METHODS The double-blind randomized clinical trial was performed on 126 patients aged 5-12 years who had been scheduled for elective tonsillectomy. The patients were randomly divided into 3 groups to receive either ketamine, tramadol, or placebo. They had Am...

introduction: management of pain in children is often inadequate and numerous clinical practice guidelines and policy statements have been published on the subject of pediatric pain. tonsillectomy is among the most frequent otorhinolaryngologic surgeries, especially in the pediatric age group and after tonsillectomy the patients usually suffer from mild to severe pain for three postoperative da...

OBJECTIVE To compare cold dissection to monopolar tonsillectomy in terms of operative time, intraoperative bleeding, post operative bleeding, and pain. METHODS The study included 100 children who underwent tonsillectomy between January 2002 and January 2004. This study was carried out at King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Patients were randomly selected to h...

Abstract Background Tonsillectomy usually was a safe procedure; in adults, the risk of agonizing pain and secondary hemorrhage could be serious. We introduced Daflon as effective complementary medication reducing these risks. This prospective study designed to evaluate effect using (Daflon oral medication) on post-tonsillectomy rates . conducted 60 patients both sexes, above 21 years, underwent...