Comparative Study of Surgical Site Wound Infection Rates in Patients with Dynamic Hip Screw Fixation Skin Closure with Polypropylene Suture Versus Metallic Skin Staples |Biomedgrid

Objectives: To compare frequency of surgical site wound infection rates of skin closure in patients with dynamic hip screw with polypropylene versus metallic skin staples. Material and Methods: This Randomized control trial study was conducted in the Department of Orthopedic surgery, Medical Teaching Institute Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar Pakistan form June 13, 2022, till December 12, 2022on 122 Patients, aged 20 to 60 years of both gender with inter-trochanteric fractures undergoing dynamic hip screw fixation were enrolled using nonprobability consecutive sampling technique. The study was conducted after approval of hospital ethical committee and written informed consent of patients. Data was entered and analyzed using SPSS. Results: In our study 122 patients were enrolled, 61 patients in each group. Mean age was 37±13.1 years in group A and 35.3±12.1 years in group B. There were 60.7% males in group A and 50.8% in group B. females were 39.3% in group A and 49.2% in group B. Mean duration on injury was 12.7±3.9 days in group A and 13.7±3.8 in group B. Surgical site infection was 11.5% in staple group and 19.7% in suture group but p-value was not significant i.e., 0.212. Conclusion: surgical site infection is less in staple group, but it is not statistically significant.