Pediatricians play an important role in the perioperative care of hospitalized children after tonsillectomy and are often called upon to manage posttonsillectomy problems in the outpatient setting. The tonsillectomy operation has changed in recent years. More children are operated upon for sleep disordered breathing and fewer for recurrent pharyngitis. New instruments now permit less invasive s...

BACKGROUND Tonsillectomy is a commonly performed and relatively safe surgical procedure. However, it can potentially be associated with several complications. We report a case of facial subcutaneous emphysema that occurred after elective tonsillectomy. CASE Tonsillectomy was performed on a patient with a history of frequent tonsillitis. After surgery, the patient developed facial subcutaneous...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To evaluate the risk of post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage associated with perioperative ketorolac use. STUDY DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis of primary articles reporting individual-level post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage rates in subjects receiving perioperative ketorolac and matched controls. Retrospective and prospective studies were both included. METHODS PubMed...

OBJECTIVES To find the effectiveness of hyaluronic acid in post-tonsillectomy pain relief and wound healing. METHODS Fifty patients were included in this prospective, double-blind, controlled clinical study (20 males, 30 females mean age of 13.56 years). Hyaluronic acid was applied to one side and the other side was used as a control during tonsillectomy. Therefore, the same patient evaluated...

Tonsillectomy happens to be the commonly performed surgery these days. Like any other surgical procedure this surgical procedure has also undergone tremendous technological changes. One such evolving change happens to be coblation tonsillectomy. Coblation technology is actually an offshoot of radiofrequency surgery. This technique involves passing radiofrequency energy through a conductive medi...

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Abstract The debate about which surgical technique for tonsillectomy could be superior over another is continuous. Tonsillectomy techniques are classified into cold and hot procedures. In techniques, no heat used; they include dissection, guillotine, microdebrider, harmonic scalpel, cryosurgery. Hot electrocautery, coblation, radio frequency, laser. Egypt, the used methods dissection with elect...

Background/Aim: Tonsillectomy is one of the widely performed surgical procedures by otolaryngologists. Today, many new instruments are used in tonsil surgery to reduce postoperative morbidity. This study aimed compare intraoperative blood loss, operating time, pain, and bleeding between harmonic scalpel tonsillectomy, coblation bipolar cold dissection tonsillectomy adult patients. Methods: pros...

Alternating doses of ibuprofen and acetaminophen provided an effective treatment for post-tonsillectomy pain in the majority of children and did not increase rate of bleeding.The new finding appear in Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology. Pain control after tonsillectomy in children is critical for a good quality of postoperative recovery. Opioids, acetaminophen and non steroidal anti-inf...