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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CONVENTIONAL INCISION AND DRAINAGE VERSUS INCISION AND DRAINAGE WITH PRIMARY CLOSURE OF THE WOUND IN ACUTE ABSCESSES

Acute abscesses are a surgical emergency and almost always require drainage, especially from
supercial sites. This is a study among 100 patients in a tertiary care centre in South India to compare the
efcacy of two methods of management of supercial – skin and soft tissue- abscesses in terms of post operative pain, wound
healing time, duration of inpatient treatment and recurrence of abscess at primary site. The rst method was the conventional
Incision and Open drainage and healing by secondary intention. The second method involved Incision and Drainage and
primary closure of the wound with a negative pressure drain. The latter method was found to be signicantly superior to the
conventional method in all the above mentioned outcomes. Hence, this method can be promoted along with the use of
appropriate antibiotics to lessen the inconveniences of the patients.