SURGICAL GEM

Another Method of Tie-Over Dressing for Surgical Wounds of Hair-Bearing Areas Alex Ginzburg, MD* and Sharad Mutalik, MBBS, DVD† *Department of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva, Israel, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, and †Maharashtra Medical Foundation, Pune, India

background. We describe a modified tie-over dressing for any kind of surgical wound in the hair-bearing areas. methods. The long ends of the sutures are tied over the gauze pad to secure it. conclusions. This modified technique of tie-over dressing

can be utilized for the majority of surgical wounds in hair-bearing areas, such as the scalp. The dressing can be removed 1 or 2 days postoperatively by the patients, and the wound can be washed thereafter. The dressing helps ensure hemostasis, is simple to perform, looks tidy, and is well accepted by the patients.

DRESSING SURGICAL WOUNDS in hair-bearing areas is cumbersome and difficult, and securing the gauze pad with a turban or barrel bandage is usually insufficient. Several authors have recently reported on the use of the hair itself, with a rubber band, to secure dressings over Mohs surgical wounds.1 We describe a simple modified tie-over dressing that is applicable for hair-bearing areas such as the scalp.

Methods After suturing the subcutis, the wound edges are approximated with either 3-0 or 4-0 nylon or prolene sutures (Figure 1). The sutures are cut at a distance of 6–8 cm from the wound. Antibiotic ointment is applied to the wound and a rolled gauze pad is placed over it. The long ends of the sutures are then tied over the gauze pad. This acts as a pressure dressing and helps to achieve hemostasis. Because the dressing is small, it can be concealed under the hair. After 1 or 2 days, the gauze pad can be removed by the patient by cutting the tied-over knots. Thereafter the wound can be washed.

Figure 1. Two tie-over dressings on the scalp after excision of two epidermal cysts.

easy to perform and is well accepted by the patients. Most patients can wash their hair on the first postoperative day. Acknowledgments We are grateful for the editorial and secretarial help of Gloria Ginzach and Melanie Kawe.

Discussion We believe that this modification of the well-known tie-over dressing may be used for any kind of surgical wound in the hair-bearing areas, such as the scalp. It is

References 1. Langtry JAA, Carruthers A. Hair tie-over dressing. Dermatol Surg 1998;24:679–80.

Commentary Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Alex Ginzburg, MD, Department of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva 49100, Israel.

Anyone performing surgery on the scalp has experienced the difficulty and frustration in bandaging this area. Even bandages placed with the greatest of care have a tendency to come off, are often ineffective as pressure dressings, and are usually quite con-

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spicuous. One way of circumventing some of these problems is to use the hair adjacent to the wound to secure the bandage. A rubber band can be used to bind the hairs together1 or, in patients with long enough hair, the hairs can be tied together to secure the dressing. In this issue, Ginzburg and Mutalik describe yet another approach somewhat akin to the bolster dressing used to secure skin grafts. The same sutures used to close the wound are left long and used to tie on a small dressing which the patient can easily remove in a few days. This technique meets most if not all the criteria for an ideal surgical dressing, ie, it is secure, neat and provides pressure. It takes little imagination to see how this technique could be adapted to temporary dressings for Mohs surgical defects in between stages of surgery. In

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terms of the technique, the only modification that comes to mind could be to close the surgical defect in a routine fashion and then use the least expensive suture possible to tie over the dressing. Such a modification hopefully would result in the use of less suture and also save money.

Pearon Lang, MD Charleston, South Carolina

Reference 1. Langtry JAA, Carruthers A. Hair tie-over dressing. Dermatol Surg 1998;24:679–680.

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