Sleep evaluation may help identify kids at risk for respiratory complications after tonsil surgery

Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 11:20 in Health & Medicine

Performing polysomnography (sleep study) prior to paediatric adenotonsillectomy (surgical removal of the tonsils and adenoids) may help identify children at a higher risk of developing postoperative respiratory complications, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Otolaryngology - Head Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...

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