Wound Care and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
The Center for Complete Wound Care and Hyperbaric Therapy offers a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, state of the art approach to managing patients with simple to complex wounds of various pathologies and/or disease states.
After the initial assessment and evaluation, each patient has a treatment plan designed specifically for their particular needs.
Therapies consistent with best practice and evidence based medicine are employed.
Wound care services include:
- Diabetic Ulcers
- Surgically created chronic wounds, i.e. pilonidal cysts
- Foot Ulcers
- Minor Burns
- Fistulas
- Lymphatic problems (lymphedema)
- Pressure Ulcers
- Gangrenous Wounds
- Radiation Wounds
- Arterial Insufficiency Wounds
- Stasis Ulcers
- Hidradenitis
- Inflamed or infected wounds
- Pyoderma Gangrenosum
- Necrotizing Wounds
- Venous insufficiency Wounds
- Incontinence
- Traumatic Wounds
- Peripheral/Vascular Wounds
- Surgical Wound Dehiscence
- Fungating Wounds (relating to Cancer)
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric Therapy is integrated into a patient's ongoing health care with the support of the patient's attending physician. Patients are followed for a prescribed amount of weekly treatments that usually averages around six to eight weeks. Qualified wound care specialists provide weekly progress reports to the patients' referring physicians. The patients then return to the referring physician for their ongoing care.
Hyperbaric therapy services include:
- Amputation Revision
- Graft Complication
- Gas Gangrene
- Late Amputation Complication
- Late Amputation Infection
- Osteoradionecrosis
- Radiation Cystitis
- Acute Traumatic Peripheral Ischemia
- Fournier's Disease
- Chronic Ulcer- Lower Extremity
- Chronic Ulcer
- Crush injuries
- Necrotizing Fasciitis
- Actinomycosis
- Chronic Osteomyelitis
- Non- Healing diabetic foot wounds
- Diabetic Gangrene
- Late Radiation Tissue injury
- Radiation Tissue Injury
- Chronic Refractory Osteomyelitis
- Preparation and preservation of Compromised Skin Graft/ Flap
Learn more about hyperbaric therapy
Location
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The Center for Complete Wound Care and Hyperbaric Therapy is conveniently located at the North Pavilion entrance to the hospital with valet and nearby outpatient parking available. The highly trained staff includes qualified wound care physicians, as well as nurses and technicians who are trained and/or certified in wound ostomy and continence nursing and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
The Center for Complete Wound Care and Hyperbaric Therapy
North Pavilion, Main Hospital Floor
Hours of Operation: Monday through Friday 7:00 am- 3:30pm
Available on-call 24 hours a day 7 days a week for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Contact Us
For more information call (708) 229-6060.