Modern Concepts on Classification, Diagnosis and Treatment of Wounds

The problem of the wound healing process remains relevant and significant. The analysis of modern approaches to classification, principles of diagnosis and treatment tactics of patients with wounds in freely available literature on eLibrary, Scopus, Web of Science databases was carried out. The basis of wound management is surgical treatment, which should be supplemented by the use of methods of physical impact and local conservative treatment, which includes, first of all, drugs that potentiate the processes of wound cleansing and stimulate reparation. Complex wound treatment is based on understanding the classification of wounds, stages of wound healing, knowledge of the volume and localization of damage, blood supply, temperature and humidity of tissues, acidity of wound discharge, type of pathogen, severity of the patient’s condition, indications and contraindications for the use of various methods, medications and their combinations, and includes a variety of approaches. But, despite the many proposed drugs, devices and methods, questions about the optimal wound management remain open. The development of accessible and inexpensive methods and drugs for local treatment of wounds is promising, as it was many years ago.