Chronic wounds represent a significant health issue affecting a broad spectrum of patients, particularly in the fields of gynecology and obstetrics. In these specialties,chronic wounds encompass a wide range of…
Chronic wound care has improved tremendously through the years due to technological advancements and medical innovations. However, wound care does not only mean the application of a wound dresssing merely. The wound should be evaluated aetiologically, and care should be planned according to the disruption in which stage of the healing has occurred [1]. The patient must be evaluated as a whole, and all systemic disturbances should be determined such as blood sugar irregularity in a diabetic foot patient and venous hypertension in a venous ulcer patient.