Comparative study of traditional healing and advanced healing with hydrocolloid dressing in the treatment of superficial wounds

Introduction: There are various methods of treatment for wound healing such a traditional methods made with dry dressing and advanced methods which apply occlusive dressings with hydrocolloids. Objective: To compare the clinical results of treatment with traditional cures and advanced treatments with hydrocolloid dressing in superficial wounds. Material and Methods: A quasi-experimental. We worked with 47 patients who had superficial wounds in the Service of Plastic Surgery of Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo National Hospital from july to december 2013. At half the area of the superficial wound proceeded to traditional healing and the other half, advanced healing was performed with hydrocolloid dressing. Results: The time to complete re-epithelialization in superficial wound managed with traditional healing was 14.62 +/- 1.98 days and 12.66 +/- 1.90 days in advanced treatments. In this study was found a frequency of infection of 17.1% in patients with superficial wounds managed with traditional cures and 4.26% in advanced healing. Conclusions: There is significant difference between the time of re-epithelialization of superficial wounds in favor of advanced method. Also, in the present study traditional cures showed greater frequency of complications.