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ReviewSisli Etfal Hastanesi tip bulteni2019

Postoperative Bleeding after Thyroid Surgery: Care Instructions.

Alessandro Pontin, Antonella Pino, Ettore Caruso, Giulia Pinto, Giuseppinella Melita, De Pasquale Maria, Gianlorenzo Dionigi

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In one paragraph

Review in Sisli Etfal Hastanesi tip bulteni, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. A Study of Cases in Which Penrose Drains Were Selected for Postoperative Hemorrhaging After Head and Neck Surgery.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2025
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  10. Transaxillary gasless endoscopic thyroidectomy versus conventional open thyroidectomy: systematic review and meta-analysis.Wideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques · 2021
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Alessandro PontinDepartment of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood ''G. Barresi'', Division for Endocrine and Minimally Invasive Surgery, University Hospital G. Martino, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Antonella PinoDepartment of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood ''G. Barresi'', Division for Endocrine and Minimally Invasive Surgery, University Hospital G. Martino, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Ettore CarusoDepartment of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood ''G. Barresi'', Division for Endocrine and Minimally Invasive Surgery, University Hospital G. Martino, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Giulia PintoDepartment of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood ''G. Barresi'', Division for Endocrine and Minimally Invasive Surgery, University Hospital G. Martino, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Giuseppinella MelitaDepartment of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood ''G. Barresi'', Division for Endocrine and Minimally Invasive Surgery, University Hospital G. Martino, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
De Pasquale MariaDepartment of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood ''G. Barresi'', Division for Endocrine and Minimally Invasive Surgery, University Hospital G. Martino, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Gianlorenzo DionigiDepartment of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood ''G. Barresi'', Division for Endocrine and Minimally Invasive Surgery, University Hospital G. Martino, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prospective studies on the incidence, etiology, and prognosis of well-characterized patients with bleeding after thyroid surgery are lacking. Bleeding after thyroid surgery cannot be predicted or prevented even if risk factors are known in every single procedure, which enhances the im-portance of the following issues: (a) meticulous hemostasis and surgical technique; (b) coopera-tion with the anesthesiologist, i.e., controlling the Valsalva maneuver, adequate blood pressure at the end of the operation as well as at extubation phase and (c) in case of bleeding, a prompt management to guarantee a better outcome. This requires an intensive postoperative clinical monitoring of patients, ideally, in a recovery room with trained staff for at least 4-6 h. Early recognition of postoperative bleeding with immediate intervention is the key to the management of this complication.

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Bleedingpostoperative complicationsrisk factorsthyroidectomy

Identifiers

PMID32377106
PMCPMC7192296

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