Study: intraoperative dexamethasone doesn’t increase post-op bleeding events significantly

More and more children are subjected to tonsillectomies. The number of operations in kids younger than 15 years old has increased essentially.
After tonsillectomy or adenotonsillectomy children may suffer from vomiting and nausea. So, doctors indicate administering corticosteroids during surgeries in order to lower these post-operation side results.
Unluckily, while corticosteroids minimize risks/severity linked with nausea and vomiting, they are associated with some other troubles. They may lead to bleeding during and after tonsillectomies. Recent researches have manifested that the number of complications after tonsillectomies has enhanced during several last years. Since number of tonsillectomies becomes higher, complications occur more often as well.
Certain scientists decided to define whether bleeding occurs after tonsillectomies because of corticosteroids. They tried to learn whether there is any obvious difference in occurring of bleeding between kids who apply the corticosteroid dexamethasone during tonsillectomies and those who are not given this medication. Thus, the scientists enrolled over 300 children in the study.
Results of the research have showed that bleeding of the levels I and II are increased by 5% in those who apply a single quantity of dexamethasone during tonsillectomy.
Thus, corticosteroids don’t maximize the risk related to post-operation bleeding significantly. Although physicians doubt about safety of corticosteroids administered during tonsillectomies, they don’t enhance serious bleeding events substantially.