Consistency and percentage agreement of preoperative surface marking of subcutaneous foreign body by colour comet tail artefact with its intra-operative positional findings - A prospective study
Journal Title: International Archives of Integrated Medicine - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 6
Abstract
Background: Exact surface localization of foreign body is vital prior to its surgical removal. Preoperative localization errors lead to excessive soft tissue exploration, prolonged surgery, increased morbidity and post-surgical complications. Aim: Determination of percentage agreement of preoperative surface marking of subcutaneous foreign body by colour comet tail artefact with its intra-operative positional findings. Materials and methods: Prospective observational study was conducted on 100 patients over duration of eight months from September 2015 to April 2016 at our institution. Preoperative surface marking of foreign body was done using Ultrasound machine PHILIPS HD7 (2.0.1) with 7 MHz linear transducer, Excel mark premium black stamp ink 2oz, Acco smooth steel wire paper clip, Trade mark 45 cm wooden measuring scale and Apsara glass marking pencil. Percentage agreement of preoperative surface marking of subcutaneous foreign body by colour comet tail artefact with its intra-operative positional findings was studied in 100 patients prospectively. All analysis was done by using IBM SSPS statistics 24 and MS Excel. Results: The color tail artifact technique showed percentage agreement of 93.5% for accurate surface marking of vertical line within ≤ 5 mm of actual location and percentage agreement of 92.5% for surface marking of horizontal line within ≤ 5 mm of actual location. Conclusions: Blind surgical procedures of foreign body removal have been replaced by real time ultrasound guided removal under strict sterile conditions in most of the affluent nations. However in developing nations and semi urban places where there is limited and underrated sterilization and disinfection technique, real time ultrasound procedures for foreign body removal remains a challenging option. This study shall suffice to the needs of developing nations and semi urban places with precise preoperative surface localization, advantages of minimal surgical exploration, minimal local tissue injury, reduced patient’s morbidity and no real time ultrasound associated nosocomial infection. The study shall also be helpful with special emphasis to those underserved villages where surgeons still rely on blind foreign body removal procedures, causing massive tissue exploration, increased hospital stay, increased cost of treatment, failure of removal and increased patients morbidity.
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Kashi Nath Sarkar, Sumanta Kumar Mandal, Pranay Kabiraj, Rikta Mallik, Dileep Kumar Gupta, Manisha Sarkar
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