TY - JOUR ID - TI - 5- BEST METHOD TO MINIMIZE POST APPENDECTOMY WOUND INFECTION AU - The late Haider T Al-Baaj AU - Issam Merdan AU - Nezar A Al-Mahfooz PY - 2008 VL - 14 IS - 1 SP - 19 EP - 22 JO - Basrah Journal of Surgery مجلة البصرة الجراحية SN - 16833589 2409501X AB - Despite numerous methods of wound care post appendectomy, no definite technique documentedto be the best. Wound irrigation under pressure with syringe is regarded recently as anacceptable physical and biological way to prevent post appendectomy wound infection. Thisstudy compares the best of several method of wound infection prevention on 418 patients subjectedto appendectomy and divided in different groups, including the use of systemic antibiotic,local antibiotic, povidone iodine, and saline pressure irrigation. We concluded that: syringepressure irrigation to the wound significantly decrease post operative infection, and isbest incomparison to other methods.

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