State of Wound Care in Rhode Island

摘要

We are grateful to the Rhode Island Medical Journal (RIMJ) for encouraging this special issue on wound healing. The authors represented in this issue are active wound healing clinicians or researchers who strive to better the lives of our fellow Rhode Islanders by caring for the many among us who battle chronic or acute wounds that don't heal accord- ing to schedule or intention. One of us (PL) served as Pres- ident of the Wound Healing Society (WHS) for 2013–14, an international group of clinicians, scientists, and people in industry, who are engaged in wound research and product development. One of the WHS Board members used to say that "Superman (aka Christopher Reeves, the actor) didn't die from his broken neck – it was an infected pressure ulcer that proved his undoing."