What’s known?
- Epistaxis is a common problem in the childhood age group.
- There are many studies in the literature evaluating the causes and
treatments of epistaxis in children. Most of these include
examinations of specialties where patients are referred for further
evaluation.
- Most of these patients present to the emergency services due to the
need for urgent medical intervention during or immediately after the
bleeding, and the number of studies evaluating the cases who applied
to the emergency department with epistaxis is very few.