COMPARISON OF WOUND INFECTION AFTER APPENDECTOMY IN WOUND HEALING WITH AND WITHOUT THE SUBCUTICULAR SUTURES

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 th