Postoperative Pain After Cesarean Sections Delivery Leaving Peritoneum Opened vs. Closed

Cesarean sections delivery is the most common surgical procedures performed in Guilan, and postoperative pain is a common complain in this patients.

To determine leaving peritoneum opened after Cesarean sections deliveries on postoperative pain in patients.

In a double blind clinical trial, with a non- randomized sampling 150 patients randomly assigned in two groups: experiment group with leaving peritoneum opened and control group with postoperative closed peritoneum as routine procedures. All information about patients (including background variables and experimental variables) recorded on forms. Pain assessment performed by visual analog scale two times with 12 hours interval. Statistical analysis carried out using t- test, Manwithney test, and chi- squared tests. Type 1 (alpha) error considered 5%.

There was no difference on background variables, type of abdominal incisions, and anesthetic methods between two groups. The means of pain numbers had statistically significant differences in two groups (P<0.01) The mean of administering injection analgesics had statistically significant differences (in experiment group less than control group).

As leaving peritoneum opened has a lot of advantages such as decrease postoperative adhesion in peritoneum. Based on the findings of this study decreasing postoperative pain is another advantage of that.