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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2520</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2018.10171</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Efficacy of Steroid and Proton Pump Inhibitors in Patients Undergoing Tonsillectomy __ampersandsignndash; A Comparative Study&#13;
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</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Sundaram</surname><given-names>Vijay</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Prabhakarrao</surname><given-names>Satya</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Akhila</surname><given-names/></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>10</day><month>09</month><year>2018</year></pub-date><volume>7)</volume><issue/><fpage>1</fpage><lpage>5</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: Advancement of technology has affected the surgical methods of tonsillectomy for reaching desired benefits. This study aims to find a practical, economical and pragmatic way in managing post-operative morbidity with respect to tonsillectomy.&#13;
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Materials and Methods: Patients were randomly divided into two groups __ampersandsignndash; Group A and Group B. Group A received Injectiondexamethasone, while Group B received oral pantoprazole. Post-operatively patients were assessed on pain, incidence of haemorrhage and wound healing on POD 0, 1, 7 and 14.&#13;
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Results: Group A had comparatively less pain on POD 0 and POD 1, but over the long term both groups didn__ampersandsignrsquo;t show any significant difference. Both groups didn__ampersandsignrsquo;t show much difference in regards to healing of tonsillar fossa. Incidence of Secondary haemorrhage (2%) and Reactionary haemorrhage (4%) were seen in Group A, but no incidence of haemorrhage was recorded in Group B.&#13;
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Discussion: Tonsillectomy as a surgical procedurehas evolved over the years.our study tookin to account two pharmacological agents which is administered,works and acts by radically different approach in which most potent,economical with fewer side effect was found to be Dexamethasone.&#13;
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Conclusion: The results concluded that there was no significant statistical difference between the two drugs in alleviating postoperative pain, haemorrhage and wound healing.__ampersandsignnbsp;&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> Tonsillectomy</kwd><kwd> Post-operative</kwd><kwd> Pain</kwd><kwd> Haemorrhage</kwd><kwd> Healing</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
