In 2005, the Hospital Universitari de la Santa Creu de Vic (HUSC) established an organized and standardized wound care protocol. The implementation of this protocol was the fundamental to promote, in 2008, the creation of the Clinical Wound Unit of HUSC, for consolidating an integrated multidisciplinary team to deal the treatment of complex chronic ulcers of the region’s patients. In 2015, the professionals of Clinical Wound Unit joined to the TR2Lab research team to promote the research activity of the Unit.
Currently, the clinical core facilities and a team of specialists of the Clinical Wounds Unit of HSC allow to generate clinical experience on the management of complex non-healing wounds by introducing new technological innovations and by applying a personalized care.
The Clinical Wound Unit of HUSC has a great leadership on the county for treating complex chronic wounds not only by the increasing number of patients and cutaneous wounds treated annually (Figure 1) but also for successful healing that is reaching the unit. During the last decade, the Clinical Wound Unit has achieved to increase annually the percentage of healed wounds and currently its success rate is close to 70% (Figure 2).
Also, the effort to establish a coordination around the patient and the incorporation of new technologies of the Clinical Wound Unit of the HUSC has resulted in a gradual reduction of hospital admissions arising from the care of chronic wounds.
Figure 1. Evolution of the number of patients and wounds treated
Figure 2. Evolution of the healing rate of wounds
