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This study aimed to assess the quality of advice contained within YouTube videos on the conservative management of epistaxis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0022215116008410_sec_a2\"><jats:title>Method:<\/jats:title><jats:p>YouTube.com was searched using the phrase \u2018how to stop a nosebleed\u2019. The first 50 videos were screened. Objective advice scores and subjective production quality scores were attributed by independent raters.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0022215116008410_sec_a3\"><jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Forty-five videos were analysed. The mean advice score was 2.0 out of 8 and the mean production quality score was 1.6 out of 3. There were no correlations between a video's advice score and its search results rank (\u03c1 = \u22120.28, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.068), its view count (\u03c1 = 0.20, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.19) or its number of \u2018likes\u2019 (\u03c1 = 0.21, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.18).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0022215116008410_sec_a4\"><jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title><jats:p>The quality of information on conservative epistaxis management within YouTube videos is extremely variable. A high search rank is no indication of video quality. Many videos proffer inappropriate and dangerous \u2018alternative\u2019 advice. 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