Adding Office-Based Laryngeal Procedures to Your Practice Can Benefit Patients

There’s also the possibility of an allergy to anesthetics or other medications. An allergy to benzocaine is more likely than one to lidocaine, he noted. Certain complications tend to be procedure-specific. Flexible scope procedures bring a risk of infection and epistaxis. An injection comes with a risk of direct trauma, hematoma, or injection misplacement. Lasers can involve direct trauma or virions carried by the laser plume. “If you perform any procedure a lot,” he said, “you will get a complication.”

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Thomas Collins is a freelance medical writer based in Florida.