Presentations unsuccessfully sent home with packs
Image 2 demonstrates 3 patients on the “Pack and Home” criteria to have re-presented within 48 hours of discharge therefore was unsuccessfully sent home with nasal packing. One patient had a background of ischaemic heart disease and valve replacement requiring anticoagulation. One patient had no comorbidities whereas the other had a history of prostate cancer. Two of the patients that returned with bleeding receiving nasal packing with Merocel®, whereas the third patient returned to hospital complaining of pain from the nasal packing but no bleeding.