Providing children oral instead of intravenous (IV) acetaminophen to help manage tonsillectomy pain improves care at lower costs, according to research being presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY 2021 annual meeting.
Melissa Brooks Peterson is also an associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora.
Tonsillectomy -; or removal of the tonsils, sometimes along with the adenoids -; is one of the most common procedures in children, with more than 500,000 performed each year. Children may have tonsillectomies due to recurrent infections of the tonsils or because they are experiencing abnormal breathing patterns while sleeping, which in some cases can be dangerous.
