[Early exposure to open air of abdominal surgical wounds. Experiences in a general surgery department at a rural hospital in Burkina-Faso].
In one year time, in the surgery department of the Ouahigouya hospital (Burkina Faso, ex Upper Volta), from the 24th. hour after surgery, the authors exposed in the open air 96 out of 219 parietal abdomen sutures. Healing duration and suppuration rate, unfortunately high (24%) were not different whether the sutures were occluded with a dressing or not. According to the authors, clear economical interest, easy monitoring of the suture, absence of influence of precarious hygienic surrounding and of climatic conditions, and mainly satisfaction of patients, are convincing arguments to apply such a practice already largely utilized in some surgery departments in western countries.
D000005:Abdomen / Q000601:surgery*; D001458:Bandages; D002050:Burkina Faso; D006780:Hospitals, Rural; D006801:Humans; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014945:Wound Healing
L'exposition précoce à l'air libre des plaies opératoires abdominales. Expérience d'un service de chirurgie générale dans un hôpital rural au Burkina-Faso.