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Septoplasty for nasal obstruction

New trial paves the way for evidence based guidelines

Health resources everywhere are stretched in this post-pandemic era. The pursuit of effectiveness has led policy makers and health insurance companies to pay close attention to the value of common procedures, and otorhinolaryngology is not spared.12 In common with other surgical techniques developed before evidence based medicine, there is a paucity of high quality evidence evaluating septoplasty and therefore no clear guidelines for its use. Consequently, clinicians have varying opinions about when, or even if, septal surgery can benefit patients with nasal obstruction.

In the linked paper, Carrie and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj-2023-075445) enrolled 378 adults with septal deviation and at least moderate symptoms of nasal obstruction into a randomised controlled trial: the Nasal Airways Obstruction Study (NAIROS).3 Participants were randomised 1:1 to receive either septoplasty (with or without unilateral inferior turb ....

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