A novel and accurate technique of photographic wound measurement.

CONTEXT

Wound measurement is an important aspect of wound management. Though there are many techniques to measure wounds, most of them are either cumbersome or too expensive.

AIMS

To introduce a simple and accurate technique by which wounds can be accurately measured.

SETTINGS AND DESIGN

This is a comparative study of 10 patients whose wounds were measured by three techniques, i.e. ruler, graph and our technique.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

The graph method was taken as the control measurement. The extent of deviation in wound measurements with our method was compared with the standard technique. The statistical analysis used was ANOVA.

RESULTS

The ruler method was highly inaccurate and overestimated the wound size by nearly 50%. Our technique remained consistent and accurate with the percentage of over or underestimation being 2-4% in comparison with the graph method.

CONCLUSIONS

This technique is simple and accurate and is an inexpensive and non-invasive method to accurately measure wounds.