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Aims: Tonsillectomy is the most common surgical procedures in the field of ear, nose and throat which has symptoms such as pain, bleeding, air ways obstruction and nasopharynx stenosis. The accuracy of the selection procedure with parental education and nursing interventions reduce the incidence of complications. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two methods of electrocautery tonsillectomy and tonsil twisting in patients. Methods: This comparative study based on convenience sampling was performed on 60 patients with two methods of electrocautery tonsillectomy (30 persons) and twisting tonsils (30 persons). Demographic questionnaire, a visual numeric pain scale, and a tonsillectomy questionnaire were completed by the researcher during and after surgery. The data were analyzed through SPSS version 16 using Chi-square, Mann-Whitney, and Pearson correlation. Results: Mann-Whitney test showed that the two methods revealed statistically significant differences between the duration of the surgical procedure (p=0.000), postoperative pain (p=0.000) and the amount of intra operative bleeding (p=0.000). However, the results did not show any statistically significant difference between the costs of treatment (p=0.633), stay in hospital (p=1.000), postoperative bleeding (p=1.000) and medication prescription (p=0.317) There were. Conclusion: The study results show that the tonsil twisting method had tonsil bleeding with 1/ 9 to more than electrocautery method and Pain in electrocautery method more than tonsil twisting method.

Keywords: Electrocoagulation, Patients Tonsil Twists, Tonsillectomy

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