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- Title
POST-OPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE IN SEPTOPLASTY WITH AND WITHOUT NASAL PACKING A COMPARATIVE STUDY AT OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF PNS SHIFA HOSPITAL, KARACHI.
- Authors
Wasim, Muhammad Fahad; Riaz, Naeem; Aslam, Sohail; Asad Shabbir Bukhari, Syed Muhammad; Mumtaz, Humza; Husain, Iqbal
- Abstract
Objective: To do a comparison of the possibility of post-operative hemorrhage with and without nasal packing among the patients undergoing septoplasty. Study Design: Comparative study. Place and Duration of Study: Ear, nose, throat (ENT) Department, Pakistan Naval Ship, Shifa Hospital Karachi, from Apr 2019 to Oct 2019. Methodology: Ninety two patients who underwent septoplasty due to deviation of nasal septum at ENT department of Pakistan Naval Ship Shifa were included in the analysis. Random division of patients was done in both the groups. Group one did not undergo nasal packing after the surgery and group two underwent nasal packing after the surgical procedure. Chi-square was used to see the difference in post-operative hemorrhage, headache, discomfort and septal perforation between the two groups. Results: Out of 92 patients, 61 (66.3%) patients were male while 31 (33.7%) were female. Post operative bleeding was found in three (6.5%) patients in group one while 13 (28.2%) patients in group two had bleeding after the procedure. It was found that post-operative bleeding, headache and discomfort was statistically significant in the group 2, who’s patients had nasal packing after the procedure of septoplasty due to deviated nasal septum. Conclusion: Post-operative hemorrhage, headache and discomfort were more common among the patients with nasal packing as compared to those without nasal packing. Nasal packing after septoplasty should be discouraged without any obvious indication in the patients undergoing septoplasty.
- Subjects
KARACHI (Pakistan); PAKISTAN; NASAL septum; HEMORRHAGE; OPERATIVE surgery; WARSHIPS; OTOLARYNGOLOGY; NASAL surgery
- Publication
Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2020, Vol 70, Issue 6, p1629
- ISSN
0030-9648
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.51253/pafmj.v70i6.3696