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East and Central African Journal of Surgery
Association of Surgeons of East Africa and College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa
ISSN: 1024-297X EISSN: 1024-297X
Vol. 6, No. 2, 2001, pp. 21-24
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Bioline Code: js01022
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge
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East and Central African Journal of Surgery, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2001, pp. 21-24
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A comparison of exposed with closed method of management of clean abdominal surgical wounds.
Asnake A
Abstract
One hundred and twenty consecutive patients undergoing abdominal surgery were randomly distributed to five groups. One group had their wounds exposed, two groups had occlusive dressings for 24 and 48 hours respectively. The remaining two groups respectively had non-occlusive dressings for 24 and 48 hours. The wounds were inspected for evidence of inspection on the 3rd, 7th and 15th post-operative days. All discharging wounds were considered infected. The infection rate ranged between 8% and 11%. The corrected infection rate after excluding those cases with obvious contributing factors ranged from 4% to 7.4%. Exposed wounds had the lowest infection rate but the
differences were not significant. The study confirmed that clean surgical wounds may be managed safely without dressing.
Keywords
Abdominal, surgical, postoperative, exposed, open, occlusive, dressing.
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