17 Year Old Girl Dies After Tonsillectomy

Patients sometimes focus too much on the intricacies and risks of the surgery itself and not realize that subsequent care AFTER surgery may ...

Why Are Some Patients Sensitive to Narcotics and Others are Not?

Blame cytochrome P450 2D6, also known as CYP2D6. Found in the liver, it is responsible for metabolizing drugs including many narcotics. It a...

Deaths Associated with Codeine Usage in Young Kids

For decades, surgeons have provided young children with prescriptions for pain control after tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy surgery, m...

5 Years Old Child Dies After Tonsillectomy from Narcotic Overdose?

The Story On April 7, 2011, 5 years old child underwent tonsillectomy in Delaware for obstructive sleep apnea . Post-operatively, he was gi...

2 Years Old Child Dies After Tonsillectomy

In Wichita, Kansas, jury has begun deliberation regarding the death of a 2 years old boy in 2006 the day after tonsillectomy surgery. Read ...