A prospective randomized trial of xylometazoline drops and epinephrine merocele nasal pack for reducing epistaxis during nasotracheal intubation.

Sonam Patel Amarjyoti Hazarika Prachi Agrawal Divya Jain Naresh Kumar Panda

Published in: Journal of dental anesthesia and pain medicine (2020)

The incidence of severe and post-extubation bleeding was significantly less with xylometazoline. Hence, it may be an effective alternative for reducing the incidence and severity of epistaxis during NTI.

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