Comparison Of Outcome Of Wound Closure After Thyroid Surgery With And Without Platysma Suturing

Children Hospital and Institute of Child Health, Lahore

Status

Completed

Conditions

Pain, Acute Postoperative

Treatments

Procedure: Paltysma suturing

Procedure: Without Platysma suturing

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06485011

Adeel7

Details and patient eligibility

About

Comparison Of Outcome Of Wound Closure After Thyroid Surgery With And Without Platysma Suturing in terms of wound scar and pain.

Full description

This randomized controlled trail was conducted at Surgical Ward from January 2021 to July 2021.

Materials and Methods Total 72 patients (indicated for thyroid surgery) who were fulfilling the inclusion criteria were enrolled. Patients were divided randomly into two groups by using lottery method. In Group A patients wound closure was done without Platysma Suturing and in Group-B patients wound closure was done with Platysma Suturing. Pain assessment was done with the help of VAS after surgery (6, Hours, 24 hours, 48 hours). Scar assessment was carried out with the help of POSAS. All this information was noted by the researcher himself and noted on a well-designed questionnaire.

Enrollment

72 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 60 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

: Both men and women patients in the age range (20-70 years) undergoing primary thyroid surgery were included.

Exclusion criteria

Patients with disorders of wound healing, diabetes mellitus, Pre-operative known malignant condition, history of neck surgery or not willing to participate in the study were excluded.