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    Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine

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    Patients may be referred by a physician, healthcare professional, or self-referral. The wound care physician will complete a history and physical, order diagnostic tests, if indicated, and determine a plan of care following evidence-based guidelines. Treatment will focus on the causation of the wound, co-existing conditions that impact wound healing, and topical wound management.

    The PCP, referring physician, or HCP will be provided patient progress reports, and the patient will be returned to their care after discharge. Patients in Home Health, Skilled Nursing Facilities, and Nursing Homes can also receive Outpatient Wound Care and HBOT. 

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    Services Offered

    • Wound consultation/evaluation, diagnostic and ongoing assessments, and treatment
    • Non- invasive vascular studies
    • Specialty wound dressings
    • Cellular and tissue based products
    • Compression therapy
    • Treatment of wound infections
    • Patient and family education
    • Pressure off-loading devices and footwear
    • Debridement
    • Negative pressure wound therapy
    • Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
     
     

    Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

    Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) helps the body's oxygen-dependent, wound-healing mechanisms function more efficiently. While enclosed in a chamber at a greater-than-normal atmospheric pressure, patients breathe pure oxygen, saturating their blood plasma and allowing it to carry from 15 to 20 times the normal amount of healing oxygen to the body's tissues. Another effect of HBOT is vasoconstriction, the benefit of which is a reduction in post-traumatic edema. In effect, HBOT maintains oxygen delivery while blood flow is improved in the microcirculation by the edema-reducing effect of vasoconstriction. Up to 18 percent of wound care patients may require HBOT treatments, provided by physicians at the Wound Care Center, who are specialty-trained in hyperbaric medicine, and our highly trained clinical hyperbaric technicians and staff. 

     

     

    The Growing Need For Wound Care

    Each year, there are 1.1 million to 1.8 million new cases and approximately 8 million Americans suffering from chronic wounds. Compelling statistics include:

    • 29.1 million Americans, or 9.3 percent of the population, have diabetes.
    • 26.9 percent of people over 65 have diabetes
    • 15 percent of all diabetics will develop chronic wounds
    • Patients with diabetes have a 10-fold increase in the risk of amputation (approximately 70,000 diabetics will undergo amputation each year)
    • More than 2 million Americans suffer from venous ulcers
    • Acute care pressure ulcer prevalence averages 14 percent

    While these numbers show the tremendous need for wound care, there is hope. Studies have shown that wound care treatment facilities have reduced amputation rates and shortened hospital stays.

     
     

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    The Advanced Wound Center
    243 Hospital Drive
    Logan, WV 25601

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