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Implementing Wound Hygiene: A Stepwise Approach

The Wound Hygiene protocol is a 4-step approach to preparing the wound for healing and sustaining a healthy healing environment, with a focus on biofilm removal. Wound hygiene benefits all wounds, but it is especially effective in moving chronic or hard-to-heal wounds through the healing trajectory.
This white paper provides step-by-step instructions on wound bed preparation using the Wound Hygiene protocol. The guide also discusses underlying contributors to wound chronicity, patient physical and psychosocial factors, wound hygiene staffing flexibility, and barriers to wound hygiene implementation.
Wound care professionals will appreciate this clearly written guide to wound hygiene, a method shown to manage biofilm and promote healing.
This white paper discusses the following topics: