Chronic wounds, by definition, are wounds that fail to go through the normal phases of healing. Understanding how and why wounds become chronic is one of the key priorities for any clinician encountering them, but there is a lot of confusion surrounding the presence or absence of infection in the inflammatory process. Dr. Michael Miller discusses ways to properly discern when infectious diseases play a role in chronic wound progression, and how antibiotic stewardship becomes a leading issue in wound care practice.
