Guidelines to aid healing of acute wounds by decreasing impediments of healing

¹Co-chaired this panel, ²Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, ³Department of Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, ⁴Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ⁵Department of Surgery, Sinai Hospital/Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, ^6.Department of Surgery, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York, ^7.Poly Remedy Inc., Mountain View, California, ^8.Department of Wound Healing, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, ⁹Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, ¹⁰Institute for Tissue Regeneration, Repair, and Rehabilitation, Bay Pines VA Healthcare System, Bay Pines, Florida, ¹¹Division of Plastic Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, ¹²Department of Surgery, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona and ¹³Barnes Jewish Hospital, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri