Enrollment
thirty-nine, allergy
MAY, TRIGGER FINGER, ALLERGY
Institutional review board approval was obtained prior to initiation of the study. Four hundred and thirty-nine patients, 18 years of age and older, undergoing carpal tunnel release by three certified hand surgeons at a single academic institution were screened for eligibility between May 2019 and October 2021. Participants were enrolled at either their preoperative clinic visit or on the day of surgery. Adults unable to provide informed consent, paediatric or adolescent patients, pregnant women and prisoners were excluded from this study. Patients undergoing simultaneous procedures on the ipsilateral extremity, such as trigger finger or cubital tunnel release, and patients with a documented allergy to adhesives or tape were also excluded. One hundred and twenty-five participants were randomized to either the subcuticular Monocryl or traditional nylon group using a digital randomizer application (CONSORT flow chart reporting the number of patients through the enrollment, intervention, allocation, follow-up and data analysis phases of the trial.