What Is a Healable Wound?

A “healable” wound is one where the patient's medical status and the health care system support adherence to an optimal plan. With a “non-healable” wound the patient does not have the physical capacity to heal, such as a patient at the end of life.

What is a non Healable wound?

A non-healable wound is physically unable to heal due to co-morbid health conditions, such as systemic disease (eg. osteomyelitis that cannot be eliminated), poor circulation or cancer.

What is considered a chronic wound?

Chronic wounds are defined as wounds that fail to proceed through the normal phases of wound healing in an orderly and timely manner. Often, chronic wounds stall in the inflammation phase of healing.