Avoiding and Dealing with Bleeding during Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

Endoscopic sinus surgery is one of the most frequent surgical ENT procedures. Bleeding during surgery may increase complications and may have negative effects on surgery and outcome. The present paper describes strategies to prevent and deal with bleeding during sinus surgery. Preoperative conservative treatment of mucosal inflammation as well the use of adrenalin for decongestion may reduce intraoperative bleeding and hence complications.