Comparative Study between Mass Closure and Hughes Repair in Emergency Laparotomy
Abstract Background Exploratory laparotomy remains one of the common operations across the surgical disciplines. As such, the systematic and safe closure of such a laparotomy wound is the key to reduce the postoperative morbidity like wound pain, wound infection and incisional hernia. Objective To compare mass closure & Hughes repair in emergency laparotomy as regard intraoperative technique, operation time, incidence of complication as wound infection, dehiscence, burst abdomen and incisional hernia. Patients and Methods This is a prospective comparative study between two types of closure, mass closure and hughes repair in emergency laparotomies. This study was conducted at Ain-Shams University Emergency Hospitals. Patients who underwent emergency laprotomy from September 2017 to March 2018 and the patients were followed up postoperatively for six months. All patients who underwent emergency laparotomy at Ain-Shams University Emergency Hospitals from September 2017 to March 2018 were chosen according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results In this study we used the same suture and materials” Polydioxanone PDS loop 1”. The comparative study included several items to discuss starting from the time of the technique in our study it ranged from 12 -19 minutes in the conventional method “Mass closure” and it ranged from 24-31 minutes in the huge repair group. It was observed that the length of the laprotomy incision determine the time of the technique. The overall operative time of mass closure group was shorter than the hughe repair technique Conclusion It was observed that there were major factors that affected the results such as the reason for the laparotomy and the general condition of the patient especially the chest condition, diabetes mellitus, serum albumin, anemia and the body mass index.