Postoperative Pain Following Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

Abstract

We conducted a retrospective review of medical records using our institution electronic database with the purpose to identify factors that could influence postoperative pain after functional endoscopic sinus surgery. The studied factors were gender, age, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) status, duration of surgery, extent of surgery, primary versus revision surgery, and extent of nasal packing. One hundred and twenty-four patients were enrolled in this study, 60.5% of them male, mean age 48 years. The mean postoperative pain reported on the visual analog scale was 1.20 on the day of surgery and 1.05 on postoperative day 1. On the day of surgery, patients who had unilateral type of surgery experienced less pain than patients with bilateral surgery (p<0.01). We did not find any statistically significant association of the reported postoperative pain with age, gender, ASA status, duration of surgery, antibiotic therapy, and type and extensiveness of nasal packing.