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Wound management

Hyperbaric care

The two fields of wound management and hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) are closely related. Hyperbaric oxygen has been demonstrated to assist in healing conditions including non-healing diabetic wounds, soft-tissue or bone infections, and radiation tissue damage.

Hyperbaric Oxygen may also be used for the primary treatment of diseases such as decompression sickness in SCUBA divers, arterial gas embolism, and carbon monoxide poisoning.

Our Wound Management & Hyperbaric Center treats patients who may be diagnosed with one of the following 14 medical diagnoses, of which nine are directly related to compromised wound healing:

  • Air or gas embolism
  • Decompression sickness
  • Carbon monoxide poisoning
  • Clostridial myonecrosis
  • Necrotizing soft-tissue infections
  • Osteomyelitis (refractory)
  • Radiation tissue damage
  • Crush injury, compartment syndrome, and other acute traumatic ischemias
  • Thermal burns
  • Skin grafts and flaps (compromised)
  • Enhancement of healing in select problem wounds
  • Exceptional blood loss anemia
  • Intracranial abscess
  • Diabetic wounds of the lower extremities

Patients may access treatment at the new Wound Management & Hyperbaric Center by direct referral. Select emergency conditions can be treated based on established criteria.
Please call the transfer center at 800-541-1928.


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