SKIN CLOSURE IN LAPAROTOMY
| Autor: | Muhammad Umair Rashid, Ghulam Shabbir, M. Suhail Amer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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| Zdroj: | The Professional Medical Journal. 18:552-556 |
| ISSN: | 2071-7733 1024-8919 |
| DOI: | 10.29309/tpmj/2011.18.04.2574 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study was to record the outcome of healing in laparotomy wounds, managed by delayed versus primary skin closure in terms of hospital stay, major and minor wound infection. Design and Duration: Quasi experimental study from September, 2006 to March, 2007. Setting: Surgical floor of Allied Hospital, (Punjab Medical College) Faisalabad. Methodology: Detailed data of each patient including presentation, operative findings, procedure performed, post operative outcome was entered on a specially designed proforma. The main outcome measures found significant were major and minor wound infection, time of presentation and advancing age and hospital stay. Results: Sixty patients underwent exploratory laparotomy through vertical abdominal incision during Sep.2006 to Mar.2007. Skin wound of the first thirty patients (group A) were left open and closed on 4th day while that of next thirty patients (group B) closed primarily. Out of sixty patients ten patients developed major wound infection leading to wound dehiscence (16.66 %). Four belonged to group A(13.33%) and six belonged to group B(20 %) (p |
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