Nutrition to Optimize Wound Healing

Course overview

Hippocrates observed that "healing is a matter of time, but sometimes also a matter of opportunity." Are wound care clinicians missing a pivotal "opportunity" in the arena of wound care? In Western healthcare, we invest billions of dollars in medications and products to promote healing of wounds, yet many interventions generate suboptimal results. Nutrition, customized to the patient's requirements, offers an opportunity not only to prevent wounds from developing but to optimize wound healing as well.