Postoperative Care and Complications Following Tonsillectomy

This podcast discusses the preoperative, operative, and postoperative considerations for patients undergoing tonsillectomy, including anatomy and pathophysiology, preoperative evaluation, anesthetic management, operative approach, and postoperative care. LEARNING OBJECTIVES Upon listening to this podcast, learners will be able to: • Explain the anatomy and pathophysiology • Describe key considerations for the preoperative anesthetic evaluation and intraoperative anesthetic management plan • Review common operative approaches • Discuss postoperative considerations AUTHORS Haley Moulton, BA MS4 Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Eelam Adil, MD, MBA, FAAP Associate Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement Boston Children's Hospital Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology Harvard Medical School Ashish Ankola, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Texas Children's Hospital Sonya Mathews Pre-Medical Student Jue Wang, MD Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine Boston Children's Hospital DATES Initial publication date: July 10, 2024 Please visit: http://www.openpediatrics.org OPENPediatrics™ is an interactive digital learning platform for healthcare clinicians sponsored by Boston Children’s Hospital and in collaboration with the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. It is designed to promote the exchange of knowledge between healthcare providers around the world caring for critically ill children in all resource settings. The content includes internationally recognized experts teaching the full range of topics on the care of critically ill children. All content is peer-reviewed and open access-and thus at no expense to the user. For further information on how to enroll, please email: openpediatrics@childrens.harvard.edu CITATION Moulton H, Adil E, Ankola A, Mathews S, Wang JT, Marcley S, McFee AM, Wolbrink TA. Tonsillectomy. 07/2024. OPENPediatrics. Podcast. https://soundcloud.com/openpediatrics/tonsillectomy-openpediatrics