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BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: Certain interventions have been carried out to reduce blood loss during thyroidectomy to a great extent. The study aims to compare the efficacy of LigaSure thyroidectomy with conventional thyroidectomy. METHODOLOGY: A quasi experimental study was conducted at Aziz Fatimah Hospital, Faisalabad, and 58 patients were divided into two groups. Group A underwent conventional thyroidectomy and Group B LigaSure thyroidectomy. Preoperative and postoperative variables were recorded and analyzed in SPSS 21. An Independent t-test was used to compare the mean difference between the two groups. A p-value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS: A total of 58 patients were enrolled in the study and divided into two groups. The mean age of patients in group A undergoing conventional thyroidectomy was (43.1±9.23) and in group B was (41.23±9.23) with p-value=0.4419 (non significant result was found among the age groups) . Mean operative time calculated for LigaSure-assisted hemithyroidectomy (28.57±3.45) minutes, subtotal thyroidectomy (43.33±2.86) minutes, and total thyroidectomy (73.15±9) minutes were significantly lower than those undergoing conventional thyroidectomies 40.12±6.5 minutes, 66.25±6.29 minutes, 87.35±7.02 minutes respectively. The mean difference in mean operative time and number of sutures used in both techniques were statistically significant (p≤ 0.05). CONCLUSION: Less mean operative time and suture ligations have increased the surgeon's compliance toward the device. These devices are now the first choice for physicians and surgeons for thyroidectomies not only in Pakistan but also across the globe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Concept of Islam, as a complete and comprehensive code of life has played the role of theoretical foundation and primary motivating force in the movement for Pakistan. Muslims of Indian subcontinent demanded a separate state for themselves to fashion all of the individual and collective spheres of life in accordance with teachings and commandments of Islam. They believed that Islam is more than western concept of religion, according to which religion is merely a set of beliefs and rituals. Islam has its own social, political, economic, legal, moral, judicial, educational and cultural systems and for implementation of these systems, they required an independent state. This concept has challenged and negated the dominant ideology of that time i.e. Secularism, which declares the religion; private affair of a person and negates any role of region in social, political and all of the collective spheres of life. This paper attempts to investigate Islamic nature of the idea of Pakistan and compares it with its antagonistic ideology of secularism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]