• Ahmed Siddique Ammar, Syed Asghar Naqi, Shehrbano Khattak, and Ahmed Raza Noumani.
• Dr. Ahmed Siddique Ammar, MBBS, MS General Surgery Senior Registrar, EAST Surgical Ward, Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan.
• Pak J Med Sci. 2021 Jul 1; 37 (4): 1118-1121.

ObjectiveTo assess the role of abdominal binder in patients with midline wound dehiscence after elective or emergency laparotomy in terms of pain, psychological satisfaction and need for reclosure.MethodsIt was a comparative study done at EAST Surgical Ward of Mayo Hospital, Lahore from 1st January 2018 to 31st December 2019. One hundred and sixty-two (162) patients were included in this study with post-operative midline abdominal wound dehiscence and after informed consent by consecutive non probability sampling technique. Patients were divided into two groups by lottery method into eighty-one patients each. Group-A included patients where abdominal binder was applied and Group-B included patients without abdominal binder. In both groups pain score, psychological satisfaction and need for reclosure was assessed and compared.ResultsPatients with abdominal binder shows significantly less pain (P value =0.000) and more psychological satisfaction (P value = 0.000) as compared to the patients where abdominal binder was not used. However, there was no difference in reducing the need for reclosure in patients who use abdominal binder (P value = 0.063).ConclusionAlthough abdominal binder helps in reducing the pain and improving the psychological satisfaction in patients with midline abdominal wound dehiscence yet it doesn't help in healing of wound and reclosure of the dehisced abdominal wound is needed.Copyright: © Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences.

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