Management of Infected Wounds: A Wound Healing Foundation Consensus Statement
Year: 2026
Type: review
Abstract: The Wound Healing Foundation (WHF) previously organized consensus panels on the management of chronic wounds (2022), acute wounds (2024), and diabetic wounds (2025). This WHF consensus statement, authored by a global interdisciplinary panel of clinicians and researchers, focuses on the management of infected wounds. The panel members reviewed the literature and reached consensus on elements of an evidence-based approach to infected wounds. Using a structured format, this statement progresses from discussing how wound infections develop, how to diagnose them, how to provide the most appropriate antimicrobial and surgical treatment, how to assess response to treatment, and how to further investigate instances of unsuccessful treatment.
Source: Advances in Wound Care
Authors: Nicolás Cortés-Penfield, Benjamin A. Lipsky, Elof Eriksson, Meghan B. Brennan, Martin Clauss, Catherine Dunyach-Remy, Sue Gardner, Roman Hayda, Lindsay Kalan, Paul Kim, Klaus Kirketerp-Møller, Paul Liu, Samuel Mandell, Oscar Murillo, Gojiro Nakagami, Laura K.S. Parnell, Edgar J.G. Peters, Parham Sendi, Gary Sibbald, Terry Swanson, Rica Tanaka, Tze-Woei Tan, Ilker Uçkay, Dot Weir
Institutions: University of Nebraska Medical Center, University of Washington, Harvard University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University Hospital of Basel, Inserm, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes, University of Iowa, Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Bellvitge University Hospital, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Enfermedades Infecciosas, Global Nursing Research Center, The University of Tokyo, The University of Tokyo, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Bern, University of Toronto, Juntendo University, Juntendo University Hospital, University of Southern California, Universitätsklinik Balgrist, Saratoga Hospital
Language: English
Topic: Wound Healing and Treatments
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7164903464