Volume : 7, Issue : 9, September - 2018

Comparison of Vacuum Assisted Dressing versus Conventional Dressing in Wound Healing

Dr. Sandeep Ambedkar, Dr Vinod Pusdekar, Dr Ritesh Bodade

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<b style="text-align: justify;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Background:</span></u></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Use of innovative dressing techniques like vacuum assisted closure (VAC) supposedly facilitates faster wound healing.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Objective:</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">T</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;&#10;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">o compare vacuum-assisted dressing and conventional dressing with regards to wound healing.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Methodology:</span></u></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Sixty Participants were randomized into 2 groups of 30each [Vacuum assisted dressing (VAC)-&lsquo;Group V&rsquo;, Conventional dressing-&lsquo;Group C&rsquo;] and the results were compared for wound healing.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Observations: </span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">On day 3, discharge from woundswas absent in 22/30 patients in group V and present in all the patients in conventional dressing group. On day 6, most of the parameters showed significant difference, except granulation. By day 9, all the parameters of wound healing were significantly better in favourof group V.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:&#10;200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-fareast-theme-font:&#10;minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:&#10;AR-SA">Conclusion</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&#10;Calii;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:&#10;EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">: All the parameters of wound healing, i.e. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;&#10;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:&#10;EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">contraction of the wound, bleeding and angiogenesis, discharge, slough, granulation and healing time were all in favour of VAC dressing.</span></p>