Background: The traditional recommendations which suggest that hypotonic intravenous (IV)
maintenance fluids are the solutions of choice in paediatric patients have not been …

Introduction: Quality assurance in health care involves the evaluation of outcomes, cost-
benefit ratios, and access to the delivery system. This literature review was undertaken to …

Objective/Hypothesis To report data on death or permanent disability after tonsillectomy.
Study Design Electronic mail survey. Methods A 32‐question survey was disseminated via …

Objective: To evaluate three current tonsillectomy techniques—intracapsular
microdebridement, intracapsular coblation, and traditional extracapsular electrocautery …

Objectives: To study complications of powered intracapsular tonsillectomy and
adenoidectomy (PITA) in pediatric patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Study …

The objective of this retrospective cohort study was to evaluate mortality rate and cause of
death after tonsil surgery in Sweden. Two national registries were used, both run by The …

Objective: To develop strategies that may assist the surgeon to prevent and manage severe
bleeding complications after adenoidectomy and tonsillectomy. Study Design …

Background: Post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage (PTH) seems to be a rare but unavoidable
complication. Due to the frequency of performed tonsillectomies, it can be estimated that a …

Objective Tonsil surgery in children is a common surgical procedure, and is mostly
performed as an inpatient procedure in Taiwan. This study elucidates the epidemiology and …

The literature suggests that tonsillectomy techniques are not standardized throughout the
world although certain techniques were identified as risk factors for post-tonsillectomy …