Outpatient tonsils question

The 2019 AAO-HNFS guidelines for tonsillectomy state that pediatric patients with severe OSA should be admitted for post-op monitoring and more specifically that obese patients with BMI >95% should undergo sleep studies to check for severe OSA. However, per their own admission, compliance with these guidelines is quite low, roughly in the 40% range. There are a number of reasons for non-compliance including lack of sleep study availability, cost, disagreement with the validity of the... Read more
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