Wound Care Center treats slow-healing wounds

Patients with diabetic ulcers and other types of slow-healing wounds may benefit from treatment at the new outpatient wound center at Baptist Hospital East.

The center, located on the first floor of the Baptist East Medical Pavilion (3900 Kresge Way) features hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) which can be used to treat wounds that have shown no improvement in four weeks of conventional treatment in addition to certain infections of the bone and skin, damaged tissue from radiation therapy, skin grafts that aren’t taking well and brown recluse spider bites.

With HBOT, the patient breathes 100 percent oxygen within a pressurized chamber, enabling the body's natural wound-healing mechanisms, which are oxygen dependent, to function more efficiently.  Treatments take about two hours.

Pressure ulcers, traumatic wounds, problem surgical wounds and other types of complex soft-tissue injuries may also be treated at the center. For more information, call the Wound Care Center at (502) 259-4470.

Patients may refer themselves for treatment, or obtain a physician referral.