International registry of otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeons with COVID-19.

Background: It has become clear that healthcare workers are at high risk, and otolaryngology has been theorized to be among the highest risk specialties for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The purpose of this study was to detail the international impact of COVID-19 among otolaryngologists, and to identify instructional cases.

Methods: Country representatives of the Young Otolaryngologists-International Federation of Otolaryngologic Societies (YO-IFOS) surveyed otolaryngologists through various channels.

Effects of tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy on hemoglobin and iron metabolism.

Objectives: To investigate a possible effect of adenoidectomy, tonsillectomy, or both operations combined in children on hemoglobin concentration and iron metabolism.

Methods: Children eligible for surgery due to recurrent tonsillitis or upper airway obstruction had a venous blood sample drawn at the time of the operation and 6 months later. One hundred and three preoperative and 91 blood samples at follow-up from patients not given iron supplementation were available for analysis of hemoglobin concentration, serum-ferritin and protoporphyrin-IX in erythrocytes.

Treatment of simple snoring using radio waves for ablation of uvula and soft palate: a day-case surgery procedure.

Objective: Uvulopalatoplasty, performed with high-frequency radio waves, was evaluated as a treatment for social snoring.

Methods: Forty male social snorers were included in this prospective, nonrandomized study. Patients' subjective complaints before, during, and 3 months after radio-assisted uvulopalatoplasty were recorded on a visual analogue scale.

[Cost effective and quality assured (adeno)tonsillectomy in children].

Background: The issues of whether minor surgery should be performed in private or public clinics and/or be funded by the national health service are under continuous debate in Norway.

Material And Methods: A prospective study of the benefit of (adeno)tonsillectomies in 120 children is presented. Surgery included in the study was performed on an inpatient as well as an outpatient basis and in public as well as private clinics.