Abstract
Importance. Developing a safe postoperative pain regimen after tonsillectomy is important. While postoperative steroids may provide an analgesic benefit, it is not known whether steroids increase the bleeding risk after tonsillectomy. Objective. To determine whether postoperative steroids increase the risk of hemorrhage after tonsillectomy in children. Design. Retrospective cohort study. Setting. Tertiary referral academic medical center. Participants. An age- and indication-matched cohort was randomly selected from tonsillectomy patients ≤12 years old from 2012 to 2017. Intervention. Prednisolone, 0.5 mg/kg (maximum dose 20 mg/day) qAM × 3 days postoperatively. Main Outcome. Postoperative hemorrhage requiring operative intervention. Results. A total of 1358 patients were included in this study, 679 of which received postoperative steroids. The steroid group had a similar of operative intervention for post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage of 1.8% versus 2.2% in the nonsteroid group (P = .560). Conclusion and Relevance. Post-tonsillectomy steroid use is not associated with an increase in operative intervention for postoperative hemorrhage.
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