Overview of Wound Healing and

Management
Dylan R Childs  1 , Ananth S Murthy  2
Affiliations

 PMID: 27894427
 DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2016.08.013

Abstract
Wound healing is a highly complex chain of events, and although it may never be possible to
eliminate the risk of experiencing a wound, clinicians' armamentarium continues to expand with
methods to manage it. The phases of wound healing are the inflammatory phase, the proliferative
phase, and the maturation phase. The pathway of healing is determined by characteristics of the
wound on initial presentation, and it is vital to select the appropriate method to treat the wound
based on its ability to avoid hypoxia, infection, excessive edema, and foreign bodies.

Keywords: Healing; Management; Skin; Soft tissue injuries; Wound.

Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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