Is Day Care Tonsillectomy a Safe Procedure?

AbstractTonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy is the commonest procedure performed by an otolaryngologist. It has been performed as an in-patient procedure. To present our experience of 15  years of day care tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy and to assess the safety of tonsillectomy as a day care procedure. Design: retrospective study. A retrospective study of all day care tonsillectomies with or without adenoidectomies operated at a Secondary care ENT Hospital from 2002 to 2016 has been carried out. In last 15 years, we have operated 1207 tonsillectomies with or without adenoidectomies as a day care procedure. Postoperatively, the patients were discharged after observing for 6 to 8 h. Out of 1207 patients, 3 patients required readmission due to bleeding and 5 due t o pa...

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