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Cesarean section is surging worldwide. For an extended period of surgical practice, the scalpel has been well-known as a gold-standard tool for making surgical incisions. The diathermy, electrocautery, is a substitute.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| diathermy group | Active Comparator | Patients' incisions are completed using the unipolar diathermy from Whiteline until we reach the parietal peritoneum (cutting the Whiteline then coagulating until reaching the peritoneum). The used diathermy frequency was 50-70 MHz. |
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| scalpel | Active Comparator | patients had their incisions completed using the surgical scalpel till we reach the parietal peritoneum. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| electrosurgery | Procedure | incisions completed using use the unipolar diathermy from Whiteline till we reach the parietal peritoneum (cutting the Whiteline then coagulation till reaching the peritoneum). The used diathermy frequency was 50-70 MHz. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| blood loss | assess and compare intraoperative blood loss between both studied groups. This was done using visualization technique detecting numbers of fully soaked pads used during the incision. | 30 min |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| waleed M El-khayat, MD | Contact | 01005135542 | waleed_elkhyat@yahoo.com |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Mohammed A Taymour, MD | Cairo University | Study Director |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| faculty of medicine - Cairo university | Recruiting | Cairo | Kasr El Ainy | 11562 | Egypt |
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| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D000072836 | Surgical Wound |
| D005334 | Fever |
| D009765 | Obesity |
| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D014947 | Wounds and Injuries |
| D001832 | Body Temperature Changes |
| D012816 | Signs and Symptoms |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
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| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D004598 | Electrosurgery |
| D003972 | Diathermy |
| D053685 | Laser Therapy |
| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D013514 | Surgical Procedures, Operative |
| D006979 | Hyperthermia, Induced |
| D013812 | Therapeutics |
| D055011 | Ablation Techniques |
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| scalpel | Procedure | patients had their incisions completed using the surgical scalpel till we reach the parietal peritoneum. |
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| D050177 | Overweight |
| D044343 | Overnutrition |
| D009748 | Nutrition Disorders |
| D009750 | Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases |
| D001835 | Body Weight |