Frequency of post-operative pain in thyroid surgery with or without use of ligasure.

Objective: To compare mean postoperative pain score and analgesia requirement in thyroid surgery with or without use of Ligasure. Study Design: Randomized Control Trial. Setting: Department of Surgical, Allied Hospital, Faisalabad. Period: one year March 2018 to March 2019. Material & Methods: All included patients were randomly allocated into two groups. Group ‘L’ underwent thyroid surgery with Ligasure without diathermy and group ‘C’ patients underwent thyroid surgery with conventional knot and tie technique using sutures and diathermy. Data was entered in questionnaire. Results: Comparison of mean pain score shows that 2.2+0.66 in Group-L and 2.88+0.77 in Group-C, p value was 0.0001. Comparison of postoperative analgesia requirement in thyroid surgery with or without use of Ligasure shows that analgesia requirement in Group-L was 7.5% (n=6) and 23.75 % (n=19) in Group-C, p value was 0.004. Conclusion: The mean postoperative pain score and analgesia requirement in thyroid surgery with the use of Ligasure was significantly reduced when compared to those without it.