Pressure splintage by coat buttons versus simple pressure dressing in management of hematoma pinna

ABSTRACT

To compare pressure splintage by coat buttons versus simple pressure dressing in management of haematoma pinna in terms of re-accumulation, perichondritis and cosmetic deformity. Randomized clinical trial. Department of ENT, Combined Military Hospital, Rawalpindi from October 2007 to February 2009. Sixty patients of haematoma pinna, of less than one month duration, were selected and randomly allocated to the button splintage and the pressure dressing groups. There was significantly less re-accumulation of haematoma in patients in whom pressure splintage was performed by coat buttons [3.33%] as compared to simple pressure dressing [26.66%]. There was no difference in perichondritis [3.33%] in both the groups, while difference in cosmetic deformity [16.66%] in button group and [33.33%] in dressing group was not statistically significant. pressure splintage by coat buttons is more effective than simple pressure dressing in preventing re-accumulation of haematoma pinna