The importance of maintaining the pace

Reflecting on the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that clinicians did not shy away from the challenges and the adaptations necessitated by COVID-19 measures. That it made a huge impact on the world of wound care is an established fact, with many new innovations already becoming the norm in wound care delivery models.

What is very heartening is that clinicians, despite many limitations, continued to work on evidence expansion. Despite the challenges that became part of the day-to-day workload in clinical settings for more than two years, research was still conducted and hypotheses still generated.

Reading a case study reporting on a novel finding, often serves as a trigger for others to start to think in the same direction. In this supplement there are two such examples; one focused on the application of cryopreserved amniotic membrane on aplasia cutis congenita, and the other on the use of a chitosan dressing on a chronically infected wound. Both are clear examples of so-called desperate measures that gave a much-needed breakthrough to achieving positive change. More often than not, that first hint of achieving a positive healing sequence serves as the trigger for the initiation of lifestyle adaptations and patient ownership of their own care to also follow thereafter.