Authored by Jean-Yves Maillard, Günter Kampf, Rose Cooper, this review highlights these difficulties and in particular the efficacy of current non-antibiotic antimicrobials used in dressings, their efficacy, and the challenges of translating in vitro efficacy data to the efficacy of dressings in patients. This review calls for a unified approach to developing standardized methods of evaluating antimicrobial dressings that will provide an improved basis for practitioners to make informed choices in wound care.

The publication is latest deliverable under the EWMA Antimicrobial Stewardship Programme. It is open access and is published by our AMS partners, BSAC, in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy – Antimicrobial Resistance (JAC-AMR).