title: Acute or chronic? What's the difference?
abstract: Acute and chronic wounds heal and behave differently. An understanding of these differences is imperative to the practitioner in providing and planning appropriate wound care and management. The purpose of this article is to present some of the major differences and enable the practitioner in developing and modifying an appropriate plan of care to enhance healing and manage patient expectations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA. marcia.spear@vanderbilt.edu
authors.forename: Marcia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Spear
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology; D014946:Wound Infection / Q000628:therapy; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy