Healing heart surgery wound using cyanoacrylate

Abstract

Objective: to follow the healing of a sternotomy surgical wound in which cyanoacrylate bandaging was used, in children who underwent heart surgery. Methods: prospective cross-sectional study performed with children during the immediate postoperative period of heart surgery, with the average of 12 and both genders. The data collected were performed using an instrument. The variables were: bleeding, hyperemia, hematoma, ecchymosis, secretion from surgical wound and extracorporeal circulation time. Results: eighty-six patients were included, with median of 17 (7 - 65) months, 43 (50%) male. The most prevalent surgery was interventricular communication 31(36%). The length of stay in the intensive care unit was 8.7 ± 9.7 days. The showed that in 67 (77%) of the patients the surgical wound healed well. Conclusion: the cyanoacrylate bandage during the post-surgery period immediately after pediatric heart surgery achieved adequate surgical healing, with lower risk of infection due to less handling of the surgical wound