TO COMPARE COSMETIC APPEARANCE AFTER WOUND CLOSURE BETWEEN TWO METHODS OF WOUND CLOSURE

Abstract

Background: Wound healing is a mechanism where body attempts to restore the integrity of injured part, delayed healing results in loss of function / poor cosmetic outcome, so the process of regeneration and tissue repair is sequence of molecular and cellular events occurring to restore the damaged tissue. Over time, researchers have found newer technology for wound closure and one among them are the surgical adhesives. Materials and Methods: Patients admitted in the wards under the department of General Surgery during a period of one year were the source of data collection after considering inclusionand exclusion criteria. A descriptive comparative study design was used for data collection and the total sample size of our study was 100. Simple random sampling technique was used to select patients for wound closure, 50 patients underwent wound closure by isoamyl 2 cyanoacrylate and other 50 by conventional suture closure method.
Results: There was no much difference in age distribution, gender distribution and investigations like haemoglobin, bleeding and clotting time, blood urea and s. creatinine betweengroups. Among conventional suture participants, appearance of secondary infection
was higher, the mean time taken for the wound to heal after the procedure was also higher, also they receivedantibiotic therapy for longer duration and mean RBS was higher when compared to the adhesive glue group and the difference was statistically significant.
Conclusion: Use of isoamyl 2-cyanoacrylate was better compared to conventional suture method as it required less time to heal, lesser antibiotic duration, lesser chance of appearance of secondary infection and also cosmetic appearance was better compared to the use of sutures.