DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2016.v04i12.008

Pages: 4208-4211

Ours was a prospective study on a total of 100 patients undergoing either primary repair of bowel or intestinal stoma formation, following emergency laparotomies in the department of surgery, Gajra Raja Medical College, Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh) during the study period of September 2013 to August 2014. After obtaining consent from ethical committee, patients who underwent emergency laparotomies with intraoperative enterosotomy/ primary repair/anastomosis done were randomly selected based on the records and grouped into two groups of those who underwent primary repair/resection/anastomosis or those who underwent stoma formation. Intraoperative, immediate and postoperative complications were studied and statistically analyzed.