A Comparative Study of Different Modalities of Dressing in Chronic Wounds (original) (raw)

2016, International Journal of Advanced Research

Chronic wound is defined as an insult or injury that has failed to proceed through an orderly and timely process to produce anatomic and functional integrity, or proceeded through the repair process without establishing a sustained anatomic and functional result 1. The wounds that have failed to heal for over a period of 4 weeks are regarded as chronic wounds. The prevalence of chronic wounds in India is 4.48 per 1000 of the population 2. The annual cost for management of chronic wounds in USA alone is greater than $20 billion 3,4. Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) in its most current form has been used steadily to heal complex wounds since its introduction by Fleischmann et al 5. While this technology seems relatively recent to modern medicine, its roots go back to the earliest civilizations. In this study, it is compared with the other commonly available modalities of dressing such as moist dressing, honey based dressing, phenytoin dressing and topically applied growth factors.