Raj Mani • Marco Romanelli • Vijay Shukla
Editors
2013
The complex clinical management of chronic wounds has struggled to move from being an art to being true science. The lack of evidence-based medicine to guide us in the treatment of complex chronic wounds is apparent to most working in this challenging area. If we search, for example, for evidence to guide us as to which dressing to choose for a neuropathic foot ulcer, it is soon clear that we have not progressed far from the statement of Hippocrates thousands of years ago: there are no randomised controlled trials to con fi rm the ef fi cacy or superiority of any particular dressing.