Cutaneous wound healing: Current concepts and advances in wound care

Topic: Current Concepts in Wound Healing

Wound healing requires a complex interaction and coordination of different cells and molecules. Any alteration in these highly coordinated events can lead to either delayed or excessive healing. This review provides an overview of adult wound healing physiology. A review of the literature focused on wound healing physiology and current advances in wound healing was conducted using the online ME...

Topic: Current Concepts in Wound Healing

The dynamic process of wound healing has various phases, and the knowledge of which is essential for identification of the pathology involved in a chronic intractable wound. Various instruments for the assessment of wound healing have been described, primarily for clinical assessment of the wound. However, very few instruments are currently available for histological grading of the wound. The a...

Current advances in modern wound healing

Wai-Ping Linda Fan is a Foundation Year 2 student, Department of Accident and Emergency, Royal Preston Hospital; Mamun Rashid is Core Surgical Trainee, Department of ENT Surgery, Tameside General Hospital, Manchester; Stuart Enoch is Speciality Registrar, Burns and Plastic Surgery, University Hospitals of South and Central Manchester Under normal circumstances, wounds are expected to heal withi...

Cutaneous wound healing

Advances in Wound Healing: A Review of Current Wound Healing Products

Successful wound care involves optimizing patient local and systemic conditions in conjunction with an ideal wound healing environment. Many different products have been developed to influence this wound environment to provide a pathogen-free, protected, and moist area for healing to occur. Newer products are currently being used to replace or augment various substrates in the wound healing cas...