Comparison of wound infection after appendectomy in wound healing with and without the subcuticular sutures Download PDF

Introduction: One of the risk factors for wound infection techniques, how and when to close the wound after surgery. Various methods have been proposed for closure this study, we compared the wound healing wound infection after appendectomy in subcutaneous tissue with or without the use of sutures was performed. Methods: This study was a randomized clinical trial in general surgery ward of Imam Reza Hospital during the years 2014-15 took place. The study population of 208 patients who were divided with a clinical diagnosis. In the first group appendectomy wound closure separate subcutaneous tissue and skin were sutured with nylon thread for sutures vertical matrix and the second group without the use of sutures under the skin and the skin just like the first group was close. In four innings of the third, seventh, one and three months after surgery were followed in the surgeon's office. Findings: In this study, 126 patients (60.7 %) were male and 81 patients (39.3%) were female. The overall average age was 10.53 ± 32.48 years. 4.9% of patient had infections and 95.1% had not infection and not were observed statistically significant relationship between the two groups in terms of infection (p<0.05). Discussion: The results of this study showed that in terms of wound infection there was no significant difference between the two methods and both methods can be used in wound healing