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Appendicectomy Skin Closure Technique: Changing Paradigms (ASC)

NCT02625987 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2016-05-27

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Summary

To compare the results associated with two different skin closure techniques in open appendectomy. 200 patients were included after acute appendicitis diagnosis in emergency department. They were grouped randomly into two groups: patients who would receive skin closure with skin closure by an unique absorbable intradermic stitch (Group A) and another that would receive a habitual technique consistent in non absorbable separated stitches (Group B). General characteristics like gender, age, body mass index (IMC), comorbidities and allergies were registered. Days of evolution (DOE) until surgery, use of antibiotics previously, complicated or uncomplicated appendicitis, surgery time and wound complications like skin infection, dehiscence, seroma or abscess were registered in each case too,

Conditions

  • Appendicitis

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Continuous intradermic stitch

Appendectomy wound closure with an intradermic Polyglactina 910 stitch

PROCEDURE

Separated stitches

Appendectomy wound closure with a separated stitches.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • María Valeria Jiménez Baez

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Maria Valeria Jimenez Baez, PhD · Mexican Social Security Institute

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Year
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-04-30
Primary Completion
2015-08-31
Completion
2015-09-30

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