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From: The role of surgical audit in improving patient management; nasal haemorrhage: an audit study

Figure 3

Review of the complications encountered in patients who underwent nasal packing and who were allowed home. Nearly all the patients could be managed on an outpatient or 'office' basis. Unfortunately, one patient who suffered a nosebleed after an alcohol related trauma had to be admitted because a failure of compliance. We subsequently revised the treatment protocol after a multi-disciplinary meeting to exclude traumatic epistaxis where management may have to be surgical in the case of vessel retraction following fracture transaction.

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