NCT03988972

Efficacy of Diathermy on Healing Power of Cesarean Section Scar

Efficacy of Diathermy on Healing Power of Cesarean Section Scar:A Randomized Control Trail

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 180 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ain Shams University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To compare the effects of electro-surgery on healing power as a primary outcome (from skin to the peritoneum. And volume of blood loss, incision time and postoperative surgical wound pain as secondary outcomes.

Detailed description

This is a prospective study is carried out at Ain Shams University Maternity Hospital, Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Faculty of medicine in women undergoing CS through pfannentiel incisions. All women will receive intravenous antibiotic prophylaxis according to the Ain Shams guideline, 1 g of cefazolin given at the time of incision. Diathermy incisions will be carried out using monopolar blade pen electrode, set on cutting mode and delivering a 35 continuous current. Electrosurgical cutting will be performed without pressure or mechanical displacement. 'Bleeders' will be controlled by using diathermy, on coagulating mode, and will be applied to a hemostat on the vessels. Incisions made by the scalpel will be done by the traditional method, with proper hemostasis by application of pressure to skin blood vessels and by ligating the subcutaneous bleeders. After the operation and during the postoperative period, paracetamol (10mg/mL) 50-mL vial will be administered by i.v. infusion for analgesia on demand according to the patient's need with a 500-mg dose. And the wound will be sutured subcuticle by a prolene 3.0 sutures.

Conditions

• Healing Surgical Wounds

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	diathermy	In women undergoing C.S, is healing power after diathermy equally to healing power after scalpel?
DEVICE	scalpel	Incisions made by the scalpel will be done by the traditional method, with proper hemostasis by application of pressure to skin blood vessels and by ligating the subcutaneous bleeders.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-02-06
• Primary completion: 2019-08-01
• Completion: 2019-08-01
• First posted: 2019-06-18
• Last updated: 2020-01-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt