A comprehensive program that includes state-of-the-art treatment for non-healing wounds, a wound that hasn't healed within 30 to 60 days. A dedicated wound healing center helps individuals who have a wound that will not mend itself through the body's natural healing process or will not heal significantly with the help of other treatment. Wound care is provided by a team of professionals who are specially trained to care for people with wounds that have resisted healing. A specialized treatment plan is overseen by physicians and a nurse case manager.
The Wound Healing Center can help with wounds such as: diabetic ulcers; lower leg ulcers, pressure ulcers or bed sores, bone infection, gangrene, skin tears or lacerations, radiation burns, post-operation wounds and infections, failed or compromised skin grafts.
One of the highly specialized treatments offered at the center is hyperbaric oxygen therapy which works by surrounding the patient with 100 percent oxygen at higher than normal atmospheric pressure. This increases the amount of oxygen in the patient's blood and, in the case of wounds, allows red blood cells to pass more easily through the plasma into the wound to heal it from the inside out. Diabetic foot wounds are an excellent example of wounds that may benefit most from this type of treatment. The center's hyperbaric oxygen chambers can also be used to treat patients suffering from such uncommon ailments as cyanide poisoning, gangrene, carbon monoxide poisoning, brown recluse spider bites and the “bends,” or decompression sickness.
In addition to tissue oxygenation, the Wound Healing Center also employs the use of vascular studies, tissue culturing and pathology, revascularization, skin grafting, and clinical or surgical debridement. |  | Anders E. Ulland, M.D.
Craig Johnson, M.D.
James Jackson, D.O.
James P. Quenan, M.D., FACS
Lynnelle R. Gabriel, D.P.M.
Michael J. Melby, M.D. |