Accessories material for prevention or nasal alar necrosis risk reduction From nasotracheal intubation

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Chotchuang Ampornsitthikul
Panus Binsirawanich

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Introduction: Nasal alar necrosis is one of the most common complications of head and neck surgery caused by nasotracheal intubation. It can develop to be some serious problems such as scar, infection, alar deformity etc. In Ramathibodi hospital, we found many cases of alar necrosis after nasotracheal intubation. So we try to create and develop an accessories material for prevention or nasal alar necrosis risk reduction from nasotracheal intubation


Objective: To create and develop an accessories material for prevention or nasal alar necrosis risk reduction from nasotracheal intubation and to calculate the incidence of nasal alar necrosis after using the accessories material.


Methods: This was a prospective case series study of the patients who were undertaken oral cavity surgery that used the accessories material for prevention or nasal alar necrosis risk reduction between January 2018 and December 2019 at IPD ENT, Ramathibodi hospital. The collected data was used to calculate the incidence of nasal alar necrosis and the relationship between incidence of nasal alar necrosis and other relative factors.


Results: 18 patients were included in the study, the incidence of nasal alar necrosis from nasotracheal intubation after using  Accessories material was 27.8%. Mean age of subjects without nasal alar necrosis is significantly (P value < 0.05) lower than mean age of subjects with nasal alar necrosis.


Conclusion: Using the accessories material in this study didn’t  show  the reduction of incidence of nasal alar necrosis from nasotracheal intubation.

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Ampornsitthikul, C. ., & Binsirawanich, P. . (2021). Accessories material for prevention or nasal alar necrosis risk reduction From nasotracheal intubation. Thai Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, 21(2), 31–45. Retrieved from https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/rcotJ/article/view/249327
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