Wound Care at Memorial Hospital is dedicated to the provision of state-of-the-art, outpatient clinical wound care and—as of June 2008—hyperbaric medicine.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment (HBOT) is an adjunctive treatment in which the patient breathes 100% oxygen while enclosed in a pressurized chamber at greater-than-normal atmospheric pressure.
While breathing pure O2, the patient’s blood plasma becomes saturated, carrying 15 to 20 times the normal amount of oxygen to the body’s tissues. The ultimate result is that the body’s natural wound-healing mechanisms, which are oxygen-dependent, are able to function more efficiently.
Approved Indications for Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment
Currently reimbursed by Medicare, HMOs and other insurance carriers, approved indications for HBOT are:
• Soft tissue radionecrosis
• Actinomycosis
• Preservation of compromised skin grafts and flaps
• Chronic refractory osteomyelitis
• Diabetic ulcer of the lower extremities
• Crush injury/acute traumatic peripheral ischemia
• Progressive necrotizing infections (necrotizing fasciitis)
• Acute peripheral arterial insufficiency
• Osteoradionecrosis
Individualized Treatment Plans
As a virtual extension of your practice, Wound Care will work with you to develop an individualized plan to treat your patient’s wound, while you maintain the care of your patient’s underlying disease and overall care. You will be provided information and updated photos of the wound on an ongoing basis.
Any patient with a wound that has not started to heal in two weeks or has not completely healed in six weeks may be a candidate for Wound Care’s traditional clinical practices, which include:
• Wound dressings
• Debridement
• Compression therapy
• Prescriptive growth factors
• Bio-engineered skin grafting
• Edema management
• Non-invasive vascular assessment
Under the medical direction of Dr. David Dobbins and Dr. Gerald Mouton, Wound Care’s services also include a full spectrum of support services, including nutritional assessment and counseling, diabetic education, patient and caregiver counseling, pain management, and special needs supplies for pressure relief.
For more information on clinical wound care practices or HBOT, call Memorial’s Wound Care at (337) 494-6700 or click here for information about our Wound Care Services.