Correspondence to: ‘Diagnosis and perioperative management in pediatric sleep‐disordered breathing’

Abstract

We read with interest the article recently published by Scalzitti et al. (1) discussing the diagnosis and perioperative management for children with sleep disordered breathing. The author proposes a modified analgesic regime for children with severe sleep disordered breathing. We suggest the authors should make note of the role surgical technique plays in the intraoperative and postoperative analgesic management of these children. They do not differentiate between surgical technique – coblation that uses lower temperatures and radiofrequency to dissect the tissues versus electrocautery that uses high temperatures to abolish the tissues. Some studies have demonstrated less early postoperative pain with coblation.

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