There are no data to suggest that delayed tracheostomy offers a morbidity or mortality advantage.


There are no data to suggest that delayed tracheostomy offers a morbidity or mortality advantage.

The existing literature still suggests that the highest locoregional control and survival rates are achieved with surgery.
Both septoplasty and rhinoplasty are associated with mostly mild pain, and postoperative opioid requirements are quite low.

Management remains controversial because there is no universally accepted consensus on the threshold for surgical intervention, appropriate treatment strategy, frequency of surveillance, and ablative versus excisional management

Chemoprophylaxis should be utilized in the postoperative period for vestibular schwannoma surgery.

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Postoperative antibiotic prophylaxis in clean-contaminated head and neck free flap reconstruction cases is most likely sufficient and recommended for use less than 24hours from wound closure.
Pitfalls in scientific reserach were identified in two major areas: design and data analysis.
A look at whether the expansion of secondary diagnosis codes in January 2011 and incentive payments for health information technology is associated with changes in measured severity of illness.