[New concept of chronic wound healing: advances in the research of wound management in palliative care].

ABSTRACT

With the aggravation of aging of global population and increase of incidence of various chronic diseases and injuries, patients with chronic wounds due to different causes (malnutrition, abnormal metabolism, compression, infection, tumor, etc.) have grown. Especially in some patients at the end of life, chronic wounds have the characteristics of difficult to heal and even unable to heal. There is an urgent need for palliative treatment for such wounds. Palliative treatment of chronic wounds focuses on the management of smell, pain, exudate, bleeding, and infection with the hope to effectively prevent infection, relief pain, improve quality of life, and reduce the economic burden of medical treatment for patients. This paper reviews the related studies of palliative treatment in chronic wounds at home and abroad, and explores the evaluation and management of palliative treatment of different wounds with the aim to provide new management strategies, new materials, and new concept for the treatment of chronic wounds.