title: Wound-bed management: key principles for practice.
abstract: Most chronic wounds have become stuck in the late inflammatory phase of wound healing. This can be distressing and frustrating for patients who may have lived with such a wound for many months. The key to the concept of wound-bed management is to prepare the wound so that modern methods of promoting healing can then be applied.
authors.affiliation: United Lincolnshire Hospital NHS Trust (ULHT), Pilgrim Hospital, Boston, Lincolnshire.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Collier
mesh_terms: D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000517:prevention & control; D003646:Debridement / Q000379:methods; D004487:Edema / Q000517:prevention & control; D005122:Exudates and Transudates; D006801:Humans; D009336:Necrosis; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000451:nursing* / Q000503:physiopathology