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- Demographics and baseline clinical characteristics of all tonsillectomy patients.
Variables Statistics (n = 1280) Age 6.473 (± 3.28) <12 years 1162 (90.8) ≥12 years 118 (9.2) Gender Male 795 (62.1) Female 485 (37.9) BMI 17.39 (± 5.11) ASA Score ASA 1 630 (49.2) ASA 2 607 (47.4) ASA 3 43 (3.4) SDB 793 (62.0) Recurrent tonsillitis 976 (76.3) Concurrent procedure Adenoidectomy 1199 (93.7) Myringotomy 61 (4.8) Laryngobronchoscopy 2 (0.2) Post tonsillectomy bleeding 43 (3.4) Values are presented as numbers and percentages (%) for categorical variables or mean ± standard deviation (SD) for continuous variables. ASA: American Society of Anesthesiologists
Variables Bleeding n=43 (%) No bleeding n=1237 (%) P-value Age 6.95±3.86 6.46±3.25 0.328 <12 years 1127 (91.1) 35 (81.4) 0.030* ≥12 years 110 (8.9) 8 (18.6) Gender Male 30 (69.8) 765 (61.8) 0.292 Female 13 (30.2) 472 (38.2) Body mass index 18.87±6.04 17.34±5.07 0.053 ASA Score ASA 1 15 (34.9) 61 (49.7) 0.097 ASA 2 25 (58.1) 582 (47.0) ASA 3 3 (7.0) 40 (3.2) SDB 25 (58.1) 768 (62.1) 0.600 Recurrent tonsillitis 33 (76.7) 943 (76.2) 0.938 Bleeding disorder 1 (2.3) 18 (1.5) 0.643 Syndromes 4 (9.3) 36 (2.9) 0.018* Tonsillectomy technique Hot tonsillectomy 42 (97.7) 1202 (97.2) 0.630 Cold steel tonsillectomy 1 (2.3) 35 (2.8) Intraoperative local anesthesia 33 (76.7) 976 (78.9) 0.734 Postoperative poor oral intake 7 (16.3) 50 (4.0) 0.000* Postoperative vomiting 2 (4.7) 12 (1.0) 0.023* Postoperative analgesia Single 15 (34.9) 32 (2.6) 0.000* Dual 28 (65.1) 1205 (97.4) - Table 3
- Multi-variable logistic regression analysis of predictors independently associated with bleeding post tonsillectomy.
Variable Odd ratio P-value 95% LCI 95% UCI Age (≥12 years) 2.685 0.027* 1.121 6.431 Gender (male) 1.690 0.153 0.823 3.472 Bleeding disorder 2.368 0.413 0.301 18.646 Syndromes 2.089 0.250 0.596 7.330 Tonsillectomy technique (hot) 1.490 0.344 0.653 3.399 Postoperative poor oral intake 4.244 0.042 * 1.057 17.044 Postoperative vomiting 1.096 0.923 0.171 7.011 Postoperative analgesia (single) 53.124 <0.001* 17.538 160.920 LCI: lower confidence interval, UCI: upper confidence interval
↵* Statistically significant p-value of ≤0.05.
Variables n=43 (%) Type of post tonsillectomy bleeding Primary 9.3 (9.3) Secondary 39 (90.7) Time to postoperative bleeding (days) 6.93±3.10 Management Conservative management 16 (37.2) Surgical intervention 27 (62.8) Required bleeding control twice 2 (4.7) Durations of admission (days) 2.14±1.10 Values are presented as numbers and percentages (%) for categorical variables or mean ± standard deviation (SD) for continuous variables.
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