Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine

CONDITIONS TREATED

The Center for Wound Healing & Hyperbarics treats patients with chronic, non-healing wounds. Conditions treated include, but are not limited to:

• Diabetic wounds of the lower extremities
• Pressure ulcers
• Soft tissue radiation injuries
• Necrotizing infections
• Compromised skin grafts and flaps
• Burns
• Osteomyelitis
• Lymphedema
• Malignant wounds
• Venous Leg Ulcers
• Brown recluse spider bites

SERVICES OFFERED

Patients may be referred by a physician, other health care practitioner, or self-referred. A physician will complete a history and physical, order diagnostic tests, if indicated, and determine a plan of care following established clinical practice guidelines. Treatment will focus on the causation of the wound, co-existing conditions that impact wound healing, and topical wound management. Services offered include:

• Wound consultation/evaluation, diagnostic and ongoing assessments, and treatment
• Non-invasive vascular studies
• Specialty wound dressings
• Bio-engineered skin grafts/substitutes
• Compression therapy
• Wound cultures, debridement and biopsies
• Treatment of wound, skin and bone infections include antibiotic therapy
• Patient and family education to improve outcomes and minimize re-occurrences
• Pressure off-loading devices and footwear
• Negative pressure wound therapy
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy

The Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbarics at Southwestern provides cost effective, safe quality care. We coordinate the patient’s plan of care with referring physicians, primary care physicians, home health agencies, and/or other health care providers.