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Comments About Postoperative Care After Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

Comments About Postoperative Care After Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Comments About Postoperative Care After Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Dr Erica Thaler’s article reviewing the postoperative examination and postoperative care after ESS is a well- debridement can be customized and done review. Her conclusion that the need for multiple debridements each patient be individualized after reduced. The downsides of multiple 1 or 2 initial postoperative visits is debridements are time, equipment, appropriate. Specific comments and reimbursement issues. Success- based on long-term experience with ful effective debridement can take up ESS are offered. to 30 minutes and, in most cases, re- The background information of- quires topical and sometimes inject- fered by Dr Thaler nicely summa- able anesthesia. In a busy practice, rizes the functional philosophy of ESS. time constraints may be problem- There is no question that doing less atic. Appropriate debridement takes surgery and preserving mucosa leads care and time. Just placing an endo- James A. Stankiewicz, MD to better, faster healing and less need scope into a postoperative nose is not for postoperative care. However, in debridement. Loose clot and crust are cases with remarkable disease and ex- removed. Fixed crust is left alone be- thought. Dr Thaler nicely discusses tensive surgery, postoperative de- cause removal can lead http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery American Medical Association

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American Medical Association
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Copyright 2002 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
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2168-6181
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10.1001/archotol.128.10.1207
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Comments About Postoperative Care After Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Dr Erica Thaler’s article reviewing the postoperative examination and postoperative care after ESS is a well- debridement can be customized and done review. Her conclusion that the need for multiple debridements each patient be individualized after reduced. The downsides of multiple 1 or 2 initial postoperative visits is debridements are time, equipment, appropriate. Specific comments and reimbursement issues. Success- based on long-term experience with ful effective debridement can take up ESS are offered. to 30 minutes and, in most cases, re- The background information of- quires topical and sometimes inject- fered by Dr Thaler nicely summa- able anesthesia. In a busy practice, rizes the functional philosophy of ESS. time constraints may be problem- There is no question that doing less atic. Appropriate debridement takes surgery and preserving mucosa leads care and time. Just placing an endo- James A. Stankiewicz, MD to better, faster healing and less need scope into a postoperative nose is not for postoperative care. However, in debridement. Loose clot and crust are cases with remarkable disease and ex- removed. Fixed crust is left alone be- thought. Dr Thaler nicely discusses tensive surgery, postoperative de- cause removal can lead

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JAMA Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery – American Medical Association

Published: Oct 1, 2002

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