Wound Care- Current Global Perspective

Abstract

The current era has evolved from topical wound therapy to the concept of holistic wound management. There was a time when the wound was considered as a “hole” for the treatment purposes but now the management has changed to treatment of the wound as “whole”. The slow rate of healing, complications, wastage of resources and associated cost is detrimental to the patients with chronic wounds and a burden to the organizations. Now, the spectrum of wound care has expanded to an international inter-professional wound care approach. The “Diabetic Foot” is a leading cause of chronic wound and has become a pandemic as per experts in the field. The awareness about wound care is growing up day by day and all the contributions are from various sources that include setting up of local wound care teams and practices in the hospitals, streamlining the work, knowledge sharing and of course publication of scientific data in the reputed journals. This review is an attempt to update the current status of wound care at a global scale in order to identify issues from the perspective of patients, care providers, logistics and management of wounds. The newer advances and approaches in the wound care have been discussed. This might help in formulating future strategies for better outcomes.