OBJECTIVES: To report on our incidence of posttonsillectomy @entity548 and to define what constituted posttonsillectomy @entity548 . DESIGN: Retrospective study. SETTING: Tertiary care @entity1 's hospital and a local satellite facility. @entity1 : A series of 1438 consecutive @entity1 who had undergone either tonsillectomy or adenotonsillectomy between January 1, 1999, and December 31, 1999. INTERVENTION: During this period, parents were instructed to return with their @entity1 for clinical evaluation if any blood was seen in the postoperative period. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Postoperative day of evaluation, age, sex, location of @entity548 , management strategy, length of hospital admission, and any @entity548 disorders were noted for each @entity1 . RESULTS: A total of 112 @entity1 underwent evaluation 134 times. Of these @entity1 , 96 required only 1 evaluation and 16 required more than 1 evaluation. All @entity1 who had more than 1 evaluation required intervention. The total number of @entity1 requiring intervention for posttonsillectomy @entity548 was 51 (3.5%) of the 1438 @entity1 . Female @entity1 were more likely than male @entity1 to return for evaluation. @entity1 who were 12 years and older were the most likely and those 3 years and younger were the least likely to have posttonsillectomy @entity548 . The most common time from surgery to initial evaluation for @entity548 was 6 days. CONCLUSIONS: By reviewing our own criteria for defining and recording posttonsillectomy @entity548 , we conclude that posttonsillectomy @entity548 is defined differently in the literature. This supports the need for a standard definition to allow for direct comparisons.

Posttonsillectomy XXXX : what is it and what should be recorded?

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['children', 'Patients', 'patients', 'patient', 'PATIENTS'] @entity548 :: ('MESH:D006470', 'Disease') :: ['hemorrhage', 'bleeding']
@entity548 :: (MESH:D006470,Disease) :: ['hemorrhage']
