ETMC Wound Healing

Wound Treatments

One of the keys to treatment of non-healing wounds is hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The wound center currently utilizes four hyperbaric oxygen chambers. Patients are treated in the pressurized, 100 percent oxygen environment during treatment periods we call dives.

The UHMS Approved Uses for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Include:

Air or Gas Embolism

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and Smoke Inhalation

Carbon Monoxide Complicated By Cyanide Poisoning

Clostridial Myonecrosis (gas gangrene)

Crush Injury, Compartment Syndrome and other Acute Traumatic Ischemias

Decompression Sickness

Enhancement in Healing in Selected Problem Wounds

Exceptional Blood Loss (anemia)

Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections (subcutaneous tissue, muscle, fascia)

Osteomyelitis (chronic refactory)

Radiation Tissue Damage (osteo and soft tissue radionecrosis)

Skin Grafts and Flaps (compromised)

Thermal Burns

Adjunctive Hyperbaric Oxygen in Intracranial Abscess

Additional Indications for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Spider Bites - brown recluse

Hydrogen Sulfide Poisoning

Cyanide Poisoning

Selecte refractory anaerobic infection

Pyoderma


Additional Treatments at Our Center
Our Wound Healing Center specialists also use a variety of additional treatments, depending on the patient's specific needs. These include

Transcutaneous Oxygen Monitoring
This will determine the level of oxygenation available to your wound to promote healing.

Doppler Evaluation of Pulses
This will determine blood flow available to transport nutrients and medications to the wound.

Blood Work
This will define any systemic problems such as anemia, diabetes, renal diseases or infection that could prevent your body from healing.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
This is a modality that requires a patient to breathe 100% oxygen at increased atmospheric pressures. This will increase the oxygen levels in your tissues. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can help to promote healing as well as fight infection.

Wound Dressings
The wound care products are chosen based on your wound's individual needs to promote the right wound environment your body requires to heal.

Wound Debridement
This is a minor procedure that enhances the growth of healthy tissues in your wound.