Post tonsillectomy haemorrhage: "is day care surgery safe"?
Tonsillectomy can safely be done as a daycare procedure as there is no significant difference of post operative haemorrhage between daycare and one day admission.
Elevated serum glucose is a good marker of ICH in children younger than 3 years. When correlated with an abnormal neurological examination, it is highly sensitive and specific. Patients with AHT have further elevation of serum glucose at presentation. Emergency department physicians should consider measuring the serum glucose in children younger than 3 years with abnormal neurological examinations and obtaining a head computer tomography if it is elevated.