Intradermal sutura versus poitns separated points at treatment of surgical abdominal injury contaminated

Abstract

Objective: Determine the characteristics of the treatment of abdominal surgical wound contaminated with intradermal suture versus separate points in the General Hospital of Barranquilla , from January 2013 to April 2014. Materials and methods: Ambispective analytic cohort study in patients over 18 years undergoing abdominal surgical procedures, in which wounds were handled classified as contaminated; raffia skin performed by intradermal closure techniques (Group 1: 50 patients) or closing separate stitches suture (Group 2: 50 patients). Results: In the group 1 most often present in women with 56%, versus 46% in group 2; mean age 31.5 ± 6.3 years for group 1 and 34.6 ± 5.9 years in group 1; the incidence of surgical site infection in the group 1 group (suture intradermal) reached 12% versus 14% in group 2 (separate stitches suture. Conclusions: Intradermal suture is safe and aesthetic abdominal surgical wounds without increasing the rate of infection, which should be performed to decrease scar cosmetic defects.