… COMPOSITION OF However, overproduction of wound exudate, in the wrong place or of the wrong composition, can WOUND EXUDATE adversely affect wound healing (Moore & Strapp, 2015). Definition of wound exudate Informal terms for wound exudate include ‘wound fluid’ or ‘wound drainage’ (WUWHS, 2007). … These can be applied to all wound types and aim to support clinicians in taking a systematic approach to wound assessment, e.g.: Box 4: Signs and symptoms of ■ TIME(S) (Schultz et al, 2004; Wounds UK, 2016; Leaper et al, 2012) – tissue, infection/ wound infection in a non-healing inflammation, moisture imbalance, edge of the wound, (surrounding skin) wound (IWII, 2016) ■ Triangle of wound assessment (Dowsett et al, 2015) – wound bed, wound edge, periwound skin ■ New, increased or altered wound- related pain ■ Generic wound assessment minimum dataset (Coleman et al, 2017) ¬ general health ■ Delayed healing information, wound baseline information, wound assessment parameters, wound symptoms, ■ Wound malodour or change in specialist investigations and referrals. odour ■ Increased or altered/purulent Holistic wound assessment exudate Holistic assessment (Table 6) will help clinicians to determine suitable short- and long-term treatment ■ Periwound oedema goals. … Melbourne: Cambridge Media. Available at: http://www.epuap. preparation, treatment, and follow-up. Wounds 29(9): S19–36 org/pu-guidelines/ Hopkins RB, Burke N, Harlock J, et al (2015) Economic burden of illness associated with Netsch DS, Nix DP, Haugen V (2016) Negative pressure wound therapy. …