Anybody in the primary care arena and for that matter, the specialty care arena, will at some point have to take care of chronic non-healing wounds. Or maybe it’s even an unusually troublesome acute wound. For example, if you’re a surgeon and you performed a procedure and ended up with a wound that would not heal, or re-opened and secondarily didn’t heal, you might be at a loss as to what to try to do to turn that around and reenter the world of healing again. It’s a situation that occurs all the time. If you’re in a community where there’s an advanced wound healing center, the simple thing to do is refer them to the wound center. But not every community has that option. Unfortunately, sometimes these patients get stuck in an environment where they’re unable to make much progress. As a result, both patient and provider get frustrated because they can’t get on the right path to healing. Sadly, it can stay like that for a long time. So, in the absence of referral to a wound center, what can a caregiver do to better understand advanced wound care and make the right intervention so that a problem wound can get back on the healing pathway? One place to start is at the Wound Whisperer website. Learn what you were never taught about caring for some of the hardest to heal wounds and become a master wound healer. After all, no patient should unnecessarily suffer.
