Techniques used for haemostasis for category of surgical method-indication group
| Technique for haemostasis | |||||||||||||||
| Bipolar diathermy | Monopolar diathermy | Infiltration with epinephrine | Radiofrequency | Other | |||||||||||
| Sweden | Norway | Denmark | Sweden | Norway | Denmark | Sweden | Norway | Denmark | Sweden | Norway | Denmark | Sweden | Norway | Denmark | |
| n=7525 | n=6044 | n=311 | n=738 | n=54 | n=2 | n=728 | n=443 | n=1993 | n=185 | n=5 | n=9849 | n=3568 | n=187 | ||
| Surgical method-indication | |||||||||||||||
| TT obstruction | 237 (3.3%) | 234 (4.1%) | 3 (1.2%) | 16 (2.2%) | 3 (6.1%) | 0 | 38 (5.4%) | 14 (3.3%) | 203 (10.4%) | 13 (7.2%) | 1 (20.0%) | 424 (4.5%) | 112 (3.3%) | 17 (10.6%) | |
| TTA obstruction | 1554 (21.7%) | 709 (12.3%) | 5 (2.0%) | 363 (49.9%) | 4 (8.2%) | 1 | 467 (65.9%) | 30 (7.0%) | 1659 (84.7%) | 38 (21.1%) | 4 (80.0%) | 4374 (45.9%) | 323 (9.5%) | 44 (27.3%) | |
| TEA obstruction | 946 (13.2%) | 562 (9.7%) | 7 (2.8%) | 48 (6.6%) | 8 (16.3%) | 0 | 34 (4.8%) | 76 (17.8%) | 38 (1.9%) | 4 (2.2%) | 0 | 1172 (12.3%) | 452 (13.4%) | 7 (4.3%) | |
| TEA recurrent tonsillitis | 210 (2.9%) | 358 (6.2%) | 24 (9.4%) | 15 (2.1%) | 1 (2.0%) | 0 | 16 (2.3%) | 23 (5.4%) | 13 (0.7%) | 10 (5.6%) | 0 | 298 (3.1%) | 234 (6.9%) | 3 (1.9%) | |
| TE obstruction | 783 (10.9%) | 337 (5.8%) | 36 (14.2%) | 32 (4.4%) | 2 (4.1%) | 0 | 32 (4.5%) | 41 (9.6%) | 16 (0.8%) | 14 (7.8%) | 0 | 517 (5.4%) | 209 (6.2%) | 13 (8.1%) | |
| TE chronic tonsillitis | 1351 (18.9%) | 1765 (30.6%) | 36 (14.2%) | 56 (7.7%) | 22 (44.9%) | 0 | 34 (4.8%) | 81 (19.0%) | 18 (0.9%) | 44 (24.4%) | 0 | 1139 (12.0%) | 896 (26.5%) | 17 (10.6%) | |
| TE recurrent tonsillitis | 1462 (20.4%) | 1686 (29.2%) | 118 (46.5%) | 146 (20.1%) | 8 (16.3%) | 0 | 62 (8.7%) | 158 (37.0%) | 5 (0.3%) | 56 (31.1%) | 0 | 1225 (12.9%) | 1103 (32.6%) | 51 (31.7%) | |
| TE peritonsillitis | 617 (8.6%) | 116 (2.0%) | 25 (9.8%) | 51 (7.0%) | 1 (2.0%) | 0 | 26 (3.7%) | 4 (0.9%) | 7 (0.4%) | 1 (0.6%) | 0 | 378 (4.0%) | 56 (1.7%) | 9 (5.6%) | |
| Missing | 365 | 277 | 57 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 19 | 16 | 34 | 5 | 0 | 322 | 183 | 26 | |
Most of the registrations under other were cold steel combined with diathermy or radiofrequency techniques.
TE, tonsillectomy; TT, tonsillotomy.