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Postoperative care of patients undergoing endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) is important both to minimize discomfort for the patients and to obtain the optimal long-term outcomes. Postoperative sinonasal cavity debridement has been advocated to prevent potential synechiae and sinus ostial stenosis, as well as to improve patient symptoms. Removal of old blood, nasal secretions, crusting, and unabsorbed packing are thought to reduce the inflammatory load, minimize potential for scarring, and allow for improved access of topical medications. However, the debridement procedure can cause bleeding, pain, and discomfort which may interfere with the effective execution of postoperative care. PuraSinus is a novel topical haemostatic agent based on nanotechnologies in the form of a transparent hydrogel suitable for endoscopic use and for which the use in sinonasal surgery could achieve these various goals. The potential of PuraSinus to enhance endoscopic mucosal wound healing may play a role in optimizing patient comfort during postoperative debridements after ESS. However, clinical evidence on its effectiveness in ESS is limited. The investigators aim to perform a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of PuraSinus in improving patient comfort during postoperative debridements among patients who underwent ESS.
Functional Endoscopic Sinus surgery (FESS) is a surgery done for chronic rhinosinusitis after failure of medical treatment. Intraoperative bleeding poses a challenge to both the surgeon and anaesthetist. Although blood loss is not massive during FESS, bleeding may obscure the surgical field prolonging the time of surgery or even leading to incompletion of the surgery. Different methods have been used to improve the surgical field but none without side effects. The use of diathermy carries the risk of local tissue damage with the risk of subsequent bleeding. Local vasoconstrictors carry the risk of systemic absorption. Induced hypotension may not be suitable for all patients; besides, this may necessitates the use of more anaestheic drugs with their associated side effects. In addition, none of theses methods have provided ideal surgical field for the surgeon.1-3 Tranexamic acid, an antifibrinolytic agent, has been used to decrease surgical field bleeding in different surgeries showing effectiveness in its topical, oral and intravenous use.4-6 The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of local, intravenous and combined use of tranexamic acid in improving the surgical field quality during functional endoscopic sinus surgery.
This is a long-term follow-up of patients that participated in the BREATHE I study.