Changing Trends in the Management of Epistaxis

Epistaxis is a very common complaint seen by many types of physicians including otolaryngologists, family physicians, and others. Management of epistaxis is often challenging and requires many types of intervention. The following review describes the different types of past and current treatment mod...

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Autores principales: Traboulsi, Henri, Alam, Elie, Hadi, Usamah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26351457
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/263987
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description Epistaxis is a very common complaint seen by many types of physicians including otolaryngologists, family physicians, and others. Management of epistaxis is often challenging and requires many types of intervention. The following review describes the different types of past and current treatment modalities including cautery, nasal packing, maxillary artery ligation, anterior artery ligation, and sphenopalatine artery ligation. The paper also proposes an algorithm for managing such cases.
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spelling pubmed-45531922015-09-08 Changing Trends in the Management of Epistaxis Traboulsi, Henri Alam, Elie Hadi, Usamah Int J Otolaryngol Review Article Epistaxis is a very common complaint seen by many types of physicians including otolaryngologists, family physicians, and others. Management of epistaxis is often challenging and requires many types of intervention. The following review describes the different types of past and current treatment modalities including cautery, nasal packing, maxillary artery ligation, anterior artery ligation, and sphenopalatine artery ligation. The paper also proposes an algorithm for managing such cases. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4553192/ /pubmed/26351457 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/263987 Text en Copyright © 2015 Henri Traboulsi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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