MAAUA: MAAUA 68th Annual Meeting Abstracts - A New Offer For Hypospadias Dressing: Allevyn®

MAAUA 68th Annual Meeting Abstracts

A New Offer For Hypospadias Dressing: Hydrocellular Adhesive Dressing
*Adnan NARCI, *Salih Çetinkurşun, *Evrim Özkaraca Boyacı, *Serdar Mıngır
Afyon Kocatepe University Faculty of Medicine Department of Pediatric Surgery, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey

Introduction: An ideal hypospadias dressing material must be cheap and nonallergenic. It also must be easily and quickly applied, nonadhering the incision, effectively absorb the leakages of wound, pressurize the fleps and grafts effectively without damage of blood circulation, protect infections and easily and painlessly removable. We use Allevyne Adhesive® as a care product that is produced for healing chronic wounds and burns, in dressing of hypospadias and circumcision.
Materials and Methods: We included 43 hypospadias and 75 circumcision cases operated in our clinic between January 2007-April 2010, for the study. All of the cases had been dressed with Allevyne Adhesive® 22.5X22.5cm. and we dressed 10 cases with each sheet.
Results: We didn’t meet any difficulty in application and removal of the dressings and the dressing could be performed easily even by the inexperienced health personnel. The coast of the application is about 5$ for each case. We didn’t encountered any complications related to dressing during follow-up.
Conclusion: We didn’t seen complications that were seen by the use of traditional dressing products which were the problems seen in removal of the dressing, desiccate developed secondary to inadequate absorption of the leakages of wound, cohesions of wound lips, infections, necrosis of the fleps and grafts secondary to erroneous locations of the dressings in Allevyn Adhesive® use. There was no additional therapeutically cost due to use of that product. For those reasons we thought that Allevyn Adhesive® was a well alternative for dressing of hypospadias and circumcision.

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