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Modified Technique of Anterior Nasal Packing: A Comparative Study Report

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Anterior nasal packing, which is a common procedure in otorhinolaryngology practice, has different complications. Pain during introduction and removal of pack, bleeding after removal due to mucosal damage and synechia formation are common among them. A continuous effort is going on worldwide to combat those by modifying the nature of pack material or inventing new materials for nasal packing. In the present study an effort was made to compare a new modification of conventional gauze pack by using aluminum foil prepared from the cover of suture materials as septal splint (to reduce the mucosal damage) with conventional gauze pack and another costly material, nasal tampon (merocel). Comparisons were done in terms of cost, efficacy and complications. Prospective hospital based interventional study. Patients were distributed into three groups according to the material used for anterior nasal packing. Comparisons were made in terms of cost of the material used, pain during introduction of pack, rise of systolic blood pressure, incidences of bleeding while pack in situ, incidences of bleeding after removal of pack that required repacking and incidences of synechia formation after pack removal. The episodes of bleeding while pack in situ, within first 48 h and forced for repacking was observed to be significantly more prevalent among nasal tampon groups (12.5%) of patients but only 2.1 and 2.4% with use of conventional gauze pack and our modification respectively. Regarding bleeding after removal of pack, 10.6% patients experienced bleeding with conventional gauze pack, whereas with our modification it was only 2.4%. Synechia formation was found to be highest among the cases with conventional gauze pack (14.9%), but with our modification it is only 2.4%. In this study it is found that use of aluminum foil prepared from the cover of suture materials can be very useful and cost effective method to reduce some of the complications of anterior nasal packing.

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  1. Department of Otolaryngology, R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, 3/1, Bose Para Lane, Baidyabati, Hooghly, 712222, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Sirshak Dutta

  2. Department of Otolaryngology, R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, Room No. 07, K.B Hostel; 1, Khudiram Bose Sarani, Kolkata, 700004, India

    Ankur Mukherjee

  3. Department of Otolaryngology, R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, Fl. No. 2D, Block 2, Shrachi Village, Jessore Road, Kolkata, 700129, India

    Jayanta Saha

  4. Department of Otolaryngology, R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, B 24/3, Kalindi Estate, Kolkata, 700089, India

    Goutam Biswas

  5. Department of Community Medicine, R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, Ananda-pally, Baruipur, Kolkata, 700144, India

    Dibakar Haldar

  6. Department of Otolaryngology, R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, 55/2, Desbandhu Road (East), Kolkata, 700035, India

    Indranil Sen

  7. Department of Otolaryngology, R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, 4A, 2/1, Purbachal, Salt Lake, Kolkata, 700091, India

    Ramanuj Sinha

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Dutta, S., Mukherjee, A., Saha, J. et al. Modified Technique of Anterior Nasal Packing: A Comparative Study Report. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 64, 341–345 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-011-0343-2

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