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Background: Wounds and their management are fundamental to the practice of surgery. In the past 15 years there have been significant advances in complex acute and chronic wound management. One of the one of the most significant discoveries was the improvement in wounds with negative pressure–assisted wound closure. In this study, the efficacy of topical negative pressure dressing with that of a control group using conventional moist wound dressings, in healing of wounds, was assessed with quality of wound healing. Methods: This is a prospective randomized observational study, 50 patients visiting medical college hospital with acute and traumatic wounds, sub-acute wounds, chronic open wounds, of which 25 patients underwent topical negative pressure dressing. The remaining 25 patients underwent conventional moist wound dressings. Wounds were assessed depending on wound size and percentage of reduction of wound size, wound bed score, percentage of granulation tissue cover, graft take up as the percentage of ulcer surface area. Statistical analysis was done using unpaired students T test and paired T test. A p-value |
