%0 Journal Article %T Clinical Outcome of Surgical Diathermy in Elective Surgery-Prospective Randomized Controlled Tria %A Arif Salam Khan %A Firoz Mahmud %A Khandaker Rezaul Hoque %A M Fardil Hossain Faisal %A Md Manir Hossain Khan %A Md Nahid Reza %A Munsur Miah %A Riaz Mahmud %J KYAMC Journal %D 2019 %R https://doi.org/10.3329/kyamcj.v10i3.44417 %X Background: Recent studies suggest that surgical diathermy shows better clinical outcome in the context of incision time, wound related postoperative pain, postoperative wound infections, and length of postoperative hospital stay and cosmetic outcome of scar in cases of elective surgical patients. Objectives: Compare the efficacy and safety of surgical diathermy versus conventional surgical blade for making skin incisions in elective mid-line laparotomy and to evaluate weather cutting diathermy is an effective and better alternative to surgical blade incision %U https://www.banglajol.info/index.php/KYAMCJ/article/view/44417