INTRODUCTION: The septoplasty associated to partial inferior turbinectomy is one of the most cirurgies done in patients with nasal obstruction. The nasal tampon has been used for bleeding primary control in these cirurgies. Several complications have been related with the nasal tampon usage, beyond to induce pain and important discomfort with its usage. Some studies have questioned the nasal tampon efficiency in the bleeding control and the complications after septoplasty and turbinectomy. OBJECTIVE: to compare the degree of nasal bleeding among patients that had done the septoplasty with partial bilateral inferior turbinectomy which used or not the nasal tampon. METHOD: It was done a prospective study where it was evaluated 60 patients with nasal septum deviation with inferior shells hypertrophy. The patients were submitted to septoplasty with bilateral turbinectomy with direct visualization. They were divided in two groups: without tampon and with tampon (Merocel® and glove's finger). These were evaluated in post-cirurgy, from the evaluation of bleeding intensity. RESULT: It was observed that the bleeding's degree in the post-cirurgy of the group who did partial bilateral inferior turbinectomy and used the nasal tampon was less than the group that did not use tampon. CONCLUSION: Patients submitted to septoplasty with partial bilateral inferior turbinectomy and did not use nasal tampon in post-cirurgy showed more bleeding than patients that used nasal tampon.
Epistaxis; nasal obstruction; post-cirurgic cares; sphenoidal shells
