Defying hard-to-heal wounds with an early antibiofilm intervention strategy: wound hygiene

Affiliations

• ¹ Vascular Nurse Specialist, The Ottawa Hospital Limb Preservation Centre, Ottawa, Canada.
• ² Vascular Nurse Consultant, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and University of Huddersfield, UK.
• ³ Nurse Practitioner, Wound Management, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia.
• ⁴ Professor, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
• ⁵ Director of Vascular Services, Consultant Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon, Changi General Hospital, Singapore.
• ⁶ Consultant Angiologist, Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon, Galdakao-Usansolo Hospital, Bizkaia, Spain.
• ⁷ Saratoga Hospital Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine, Saratoga Springs, New York, US.
• ⁸ Southwest Regional Wound Care Center, Lubbock, Texas, US.
• ⁹ Dermatologist, Dermal Centre, Mělník, Czech Republic.
• ¹⁰ Chief Wound Care Surgical Unit, Division of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Research Institute, Rome, Italy.
• ¹¹ Professor of Dermatology and Venerology, University of Essen, Germany.
• ¹² Associate Research Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Director, Medical Biofilms Laboratory, Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, US.
• ¹³ Wound Specialized Advanced Practice Nurse, Advanced Wound Care, Southaven, Mississippi and West Memphis, Arkansas, US.
• ¹⁴ Professor and Chief of Diabetic Foot Unit, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
• ¹⁵ Associate Professor, Diabetology and Metabolic Diseases Department, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
• ¹⁶ Clinical Specialist Podiatrist, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Republic of Ireland.