COMPARISON OF PURSE-STRING CLOSURE VERSUS CONVENTIONAL PRIMARY CLOSURE FOLLOWING STOMA REVERSAL TO REDUCE SURGICAL SITE INFECTION RATE"

Overview

The study will be carried out in Surgical Unit-III, Lahore General Hospital, Lahore for one year . . Patients undergoing surgery for Ileostomy will be randomly divided into two groups, Group-A (Purse-string closure) and Group-B (Conventional primary closure). All the patients will be called for follow up checkup on 14th days after operation and after one month. Both of the groups will be checked and recorded for SSI after operation and hospital stay.

The study will be carried out in Surgical Unit-III, Lahore General Hospital. It will be a randomized control trial. Patients undergoing surgery for Ileostomy were randomly divided into two groups, Group-A (Purse-string closure) and Group-B (Conventional primary closure). All the patients will be called for follow-up checkup on 14th days after operation and after one month. Both of the groups will be checked and recorded for SSI after operation and hospital stay. The data will be statistically analyzed by using SPSS v23.0.t test (independent sample) used for the comparison of hospital stay mean. Chi-square will also used for the comparison of the frequencies of SSI. Data were stratified for gender and age. A p-value ≤0.05 will be considered as significant.

Conditions