Surgical Mortality Audit-lessons Learned in a Developing Nation.

Surgical audit is a systematic, critical analysis of the quality of surgical care that is reviewed by peers against explicit criteria or recognized standards. It is used to improve surgical practice with the ultimate goal of improving patient care. As the pattern of surgical care is different in the developing world, we analyzed mortalities in a referral medical institute of India to suggest interventions for improvement.

Comparative study of skin grafting with and without surgical removal of granulation tissue in chronic burn wounds.

A prospective comparative study of skin grafting of chronic wounds with and without surgical removal of granulation tissue was done on 51 patients with an objective of finding a better method of skin grafting objectively in the chronic burns wounds. Comparative study was done on those patients who had wounds on both the sides of their body. Wounds present on the right side of the body labeled as Group A were skin grafted after removal of granulation tissue and wounds present on left side of the body labeled as Group B were skin grafted without removal of granulation tissue.