Comparison of laparoscopic port site skin closure techniques
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: O- Medical and Surgical
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2020/11/029160
- Lead Sponsor
- AIIMS Bhubaneswar
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Patients undergoing elective laparoscopic procedures.
Age more than 18 years
Exclusion Criteria
Patients in whom port site incisions will be extended beyond 12 mm to retrieve specimen.
Patients in whom laparoscopic surgery is converted to open surgery.
ASA Grade III and above
Patients in whom some previous trauma/surgery has left a scar over the sites where port sites are inserted.
Unwillingness to come for wound assessment after 14 days and at 3 months
Informed consent not given.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Wound healing, assessed by the Hollander Wound Evaluation ScoreTimepoint: Wound healing, assessed by the Hollander Wound Evaluation Score at 3 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Closure timeTimepoint: to be seen intraop, measured in secs;Wound dehiscenceTimepoint: after 48 hours post op