The aim of this study is to compare patients who used drain to patients who did not use drain post-thyroidectomy regarding the short-term outcomes .
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
40
After thyroid surgery we pust drain at bed of surgery to monitor post operative bleeding.
Rate of hematoma post-operative .
Rate of post operative hematoma formation and effect of drain in preventing it
Time frame: 24 hours
Rate of infection
Compare Rate of surgical site infection between two groups
Time frame: 7 days
Rate of re intervention
Time frame: 7 days
Post-operative pain by visual analogue scale
Time frame: 3 days
Post-operative hospital stay in days
Length of hospital stay: described as the length of a single hospitalization, which is determined by subtracting the day of admission from the day of discharge. Data are collected from patients underwent thyroid surgery using a pretested, structured interviewer-administered questionnaire, medical record review,
Time frame: 7 days
Patient satisfaction by likert scale
Time frame: 7 days
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