Journal Reviews

Risk factors for post tonsillectomy bleeds

1 November 2014 | | Skull Base Surgery, Head and Neck | Bleeding, Postoperative hemorrhage, Reoperation, Tonsillectomy

This paper reviews post-tonsillectomy bleeding in 692 patients and attempts to tease out risk factors. The overall bleed rate of 11.6% seems very high. The return to theatre rate was 2.6%. The paper identifies male patients and adult patients as...