Infection and/or inflammation Aim to achieve non-inflamed, non-infected wounds

Identifying and addressing wound infection, to reduce bacterial burden and dampen the inflammatory response, is essential to promote wound healing and correctly inform the use of antibiotics1

Think, act, disrupt

Aim to achieve non-inflamed, non-infected wounds. To help guide when to act on infection:2

Think

  • Contamination: Unless compromised, the patient will respond and destroy bacteria
  • Colonisation: Limited, non-critical proliferation of microbes that won’t affect wound progression

Act

  • Localised: A deeper presence in the wound tissue, but currently contained in one location, system or structure
  • Spreading: Infection present in surrounding tissue with signs and symptoms beyond the wound border, potentially into deep tissue, muscle, fascia organs or body cavities
  • Systemic: Microorganisms spread through the vascular or lymphatic systems and can affect the whole body

Disrupt

  • Biofilm: Occurs in 78% of wounds, causing constant inflammation, delayed healing and treatment failure. Effective assessment and identification is essential to initiate the correct treatment3-4
TIME Infection

Assess the wound to identify the right treatment or intervention

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Citations
  1. Schultz G, et al. Wound Repair Regen. 2005, 13, S1–11.
  2. International Wound Infection Institute (IWII). Wound infection in clinical practice. Wounds International 2016.
  3. Malone M, et al. J Wound Care 2016; vol 25, no 12.
  4. Schultz G, et al for the Global Wound Biofilm Expert Panel. Consensus guidelines for the identification and treatment of biofilms in chronic non-healing wounds.

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