A better strategy using barbed sutures for wound closure in total knee arthroplasty.

Conclusion: The use of KBS in TKA is associated with significantly shortened wound closure times and total closure cost without increased risk of intraoperative needle sticks and suture breakage and postoperative incision complications. Given the relevant possible biases in our study, adequately powered and more RCTs with long-term follow-up are needed to compare the efficacy and safety between KBS and KTS. PMID: 31359779 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research - Category: General Medicine Tags: J Comp Eff Res Source Type: research