Wounds that will not heal need a reason found and a plan that lasts months — not another dressing.
The complex wound reconstruction service of Chongqing West District Hospital treats chronic wounds, diabetic foot wounds, pressure ulcers, and venous and arterial leg ulcers. We look for why a wound has stalled — pressure, circulation, infection, or diabetes — and then plan debridement, offloading, compression, and graft or flap closure with you, honestly and for as long as it takes.
Healing is measured in months. Recurrence is common. We will tell you what is achievable and what is not.
- Evidence-based wound care
- Cause found before dressing chosen
- Honest about healing times
- Tertiary-hospital safety net
Find the cause, then treat the wound
Almost every chronic wound is kept open by something that is not the wound itself. Every plan starts by identifying what that is.
Assess & find the cause
Measured assessment of size, depth, tissue type, and infection, together with circulation and sensation testing and a review of diabetes control. The result decides whether compression is safe, whether offloading is the priority, and whether the blood supply needs restoring first.
Treat the wound properly
Debridement of dead tissue and biofilm, control of infection, pressure relief or compression as indicated, and dressings chosen for the wound state. This is sustained work over weeks and months, reviewed at every visit rather than changed on a hunch.
Close & keep it closed
When a wound is clean and well perfused, skin grafts and flaps can close what will not close on its own. After healing, protective footwear, compression, skin care, and scheduled review continue — because recurrence is common and the plan does not end at closure.
Dedicated specialists within a tertiary hospital
The leadership team of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center brings together specialists in plastic surgery, wound closure, aesthetic surgery, skin and laser care, and dermatology, with the full safety net of a tertiary general hospital behind every wound plan.
Shaoliang Wang, MD (王韶亮)
Complex Wound Reconstruction · Center Director
Center Director and lead of this site's wound content; complex wound repair, surgical debridement, skin graft and flap closure, and skin tumour excision and reconstruction, with 20+ years of tertiary-hospital surgical experience.
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Tongchun Mao, MD (毛彤春)
Aesthetic Surgery · Deputy Director
Deputy Director and head of aesthetic surgery; fine closure technique and scar-conscious repair of wounds on the face and other exposed areas, where how a wound is closed matters as much as whether it closes.
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Ke He, MD (何锞)
Skin & Laser Aesthetics · Deputy Director
Head of skin and laser aesthetics; scar prevention after wound closure, laser management of redness, thickness, and pigment in healing scars and grafted skin, and the skin care that keeps a closed wound closed.
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Yongbo Jia, MD (贾勇波)
Dermatology · Deputy Director
Head of dermatology; assessment of skin conditions that impair healing, triage of the non-healing sore that may be a skin tumour rather than a wound, and dermatologic aftercare for grafted and flap-covered skin.
View profile →Wound care, explained honestly
Start with the basics: how a wound heals and why it stalls, how wounds are assessed, what debridement involves, and how each type of chronic wound is treated and prevented from returning.
How a Wound Heals, and What Makes It Chronic
The phases of wound healing, the difference between an acute and a chronic wound, and the four reasons a wound stalls: pressure, poor perfusion, infection, and uncontrolled diabetes.
Read the guide →Wound Assessment: Measuring What Is Actually Happening
How clinicians assess a wound: measurement, tissue type, infection, perfusion, and sensation, and how a structured record shows whether treatment is working.
Read the guide →Wound Debridement: Why Dead Tissue Has to Go
The methods of wound debridement, why removing dead tissue and biofilm is the foundation of healing, and what the procedure actually feels like.
Read the guide →Diabetic Foot Wounds: Why Offloading Decides the Outcome
How neuropathy and poor circulation make diabetic foot wounds limb-threatening, how they are assessed, and why offloading decides whether they heal.
Read the guide →Pressure Ulcers: Staging, Prevention, and Surgical Closure
How immobility causes pressure ulcers, how they are staged, the prevention that works, and when surgical closure with a flap is needed.
Read the guide →Venous Leg Ulcers and Compression Therapy
Why venous leg ulcers form, why compression therapy is the treatment with the best evidence behind it, and how adherence decides whether the ulcer heals.
Read the guide →We will not sell you certainty we do not have
No dressing substitutes for perfusion, offloading, and infection control. Chronic wounds heal over months rather than weeks, recurrence is common, diabetes and vascular disease must be controlled for any wound to close, and amputation is sometimes the right operation. Anyone who promises a guaranteed closure is not giving you honest medical advice. Our job is to help you make a well-informed decision — even when that decision is to keep going slowly, or to change the plan.
Ready to have your wound assessed properly?
Reach out for a consultation. We will examine the wound, look for the reasons it is not healing, and plan reconstruction or long-term management with you.
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