Hydrogels in Chronic Wound Care: A Multifaceted Approach to Healing and Regeneration
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2025-08-25
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Chitkara University Publications
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Background: In wealthy nations, 1-2% of people suffer from serious chronic wounds. In India, chronic wounds have a prevalence rate of approximately 4.5 per 1000 individuals, with diabetic foot ulcers and pressure ulcers being the most common.
Purpose: Chronic wound treatment is necessary to maintain patients’ physical and emotional well-being and improve quality of life. Numerous methods, including hydrogel dressings, skin grafts, debridement, ultrasound, electromagnetic, and negative pressure wound treatment, may be used to treat chronic wounds.
Methods: Recent literature has been surveyed from PUBMED, GOOGLE SCHOLAR, etc., like search engines, for summarizing detailed ongoing developments in the field of hydrogels in chronic wound care.
Conclusions: Due to their functional qualities that may be adjusted, hydrogel dressings are a viable and promising solution for accelerating the healing of chronic wounds. These characteristics include biodegradability, adhesion, and bioactivities that are pre-antigenic, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory. This overview summarizes the various types of chronic wounds, stages of the healing process, and important treatment modalities. The advantages of hydrogel-based dressings for treating chronic wounds are discussed, along with their multifunctional qualities, illustrating their superiority over other dressing types for long-term wound healing.
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Hydrogels, Polymers, Wound dressings, Chronic wounds, Wound healing