A study showed that in wound care there is an overuse of practices that lack evidence and science to support them and an underuse of approaches with evidence. The use of Dakin’s solution and acetic acid are two examples of what that study was referring to. Wound care clinicians, and especially certified wound care clinicians, have a responsibility to provide patients with wound care treatments based on science or clinical evidence. I myself am guilty of promoting practices that didn’t meet those criteria back in the early days of my career because I largely trusted the clinicians teaching me were doing the right thing. As I gained more knowledge and experience and heard some of my practices challenged by other “experts” in the industry, I began to question things … read more