Introduction: Chronic wounds represent a significant physical burden on a person and a financial burden for the healthcare system. This has led scientists to research if new technologies could gain objective measurements of the surface, depth and state of wounds, improve wound care, and improve healthcare documentation. One of the technologies, which has been the focus of researchers, is artificial intelligence. Purpose: The purpose of our diploma work is to present the findings of studies regarding the use of artificial intelligence in wound care. Our goal is to present the use of artificial intelligence in wound care with the help of gathered studies, as well as to highlight the possible risks that could come with its use. Methods: We performed a narrative literature review. We searched CINAHL and Medline for articles regarding the use of artificial intelligence in wound care. Results: From the gathered studies we chose 15 studies that fit our criteria. From them we identified four categories where authors were researching the use of artificial intelligence in wound care. These categories are: precepting wound area and gathering information about wounds from photographs, wound classification, predicting wounds, and helping manage wound care and offering advice regarding wound care. Discussion and conclusion: In all four identified categories, the artificial intelligence models performed adequality and authors were optimistic regarding its use in wound care. Using artificial intelligence may pose a risk, if untrained healthcare workers enter incorrect data. The model would then give false answers or advice. The most common limitation of these gathered articles was, that authors often used only one or two types of wounds or small amounts of data. Because of this, most authors recommended additional testing for their models. Due to the fact that all gathered studies were carried out in foreign countries, we recommend that similar studies be conducted in Slovenian healthcare institutions with a focus on commercially available programs and accessories that use artificial intelligence for wound care. Additionally, we would recommend researching the Slovenian healthcare workers attitudes towards using artificial intelligence in wound care and their knowledge of the technology used in artificial intelligence, as its use is becoming more and more widespread.
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