Wound care
Wound care involves medical interventions to heal a wound after injury. Specialized treatment is provided for wounds that are nonhealing or refuse to heal on their own. A vital aspect of treatment includes learning how to properly dress and care for a wound.
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Wounds can cause chronic pain and distress — but healing starts here.
At HCA HealthONE hospitals, we provide comprehensive care for acute, chronic and nonhealing wounds. We want your healing to start right away, so our multidisciplinary team works together to create a care plan tailored to your unique needs and addressing any underlying medical conditions.
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Free health-related advice is just a phone call away. Our nurses help you understand your symptoms, treatment options and procedures. They will also help you find a provider or specialist and schedule an appointment.
Free health-related advice is just a phone call away. Our nurses help you understand your symptoms, treatment options and procedures. They will also help you find a provider or specialist and schedule an appointment.
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Types of wounds we treat
Wounds can come in many forms, and our program evaluates and treats both acute and chronic wounds, including:
- Arterial ulcers
- Burns
- Collagen vascular disease
- Diabetic wounds/ulcers
- Infectious ulcers
- Nonhealing surgical incisions
- Pressure wounds/ulcers
- Radiation therapy burns
- Vasculitis ulcers
- Venous stasis ulcers
Wound management services we offer
Our wound care specialists work in tandem with your primary care physician to ensure that wound treatment is as catered to your personal health as possible.
Wound treatment options
When you are treated at any of our facilities, you are cared for by a diverse group of specialists, including:
- Case managers
- Certified hyperbaric technicians
- Diabetic educators
- Hyperbaric medicine physicians
- Wound ostomy and continence nurses
Together, our specialized doctors and surgeons work to effectively heal wounds and restore bodily function through both surgical and nonsurgical means, including:
- Bioengineered skin substitutes
- Brachial plexus surgery
- Breast reconstruction
- Complete ostomy care
- Compression therapy
- Dressing changes
- Enzymatic debridement agents
- Facial reconstruction
- Head and neck reconstruction
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT)
- Lymphedema surgery
- Mist ultrasound healing therapy
- Mohs reconstruction
- Negative pressure wound therapy (wound vac)
- Nutritional counseling
- Patient/family education
- Peripheral nerve surgery
- Sharp and mechanical debridement
- Topical medications
- Skin cancer reconstruction
- Targeted muscle reinnervation
- Upper and lower extremity limb salvage
Hyperbaric medicine
Hyperbaric medicine, also known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), involves breathing oxygen inside of a pressurized chamber. In the hyperbaric chamber, your lungs can collect more oxygen than would be possible breathing pure oxygen at normal air pressure. This oxygen is then carried throughout the body to promote faster healing.
Conditions that are treated using HBOT include:
- Burns
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Gas gangrene
- Crush injuries/compartment syndrome
- Necrotizing fasciitis
- Osteomyelitis
- Radiation injuries
- Skin grafts
- Thermal burns
Wound care and diabetes management
Diabetes is a chronic condition that can lead to serious complications if not treated properly. One of these complications is the development of wounds or diabetic foot ulcers, that can sometimes result in the need for intensive treatment, including amputation. When your care is in our hands, we do everything we can to prevent this and provide treatments that preserve as much of the affected limb as possible. However, we do provide advanced amputee care when needed.
We also provide diabetes education programs. Using individualized treatment plans tailored to your specific needs and lifestyle, we work closely with you first to properly diagnose your condition and then to carefully manage the disease through nutrition, exercise, support and education.
Limb preservation
Chronic wounds, often ones that are a symptom of diabetes, can lead to the need for amputation as a result of poor circulation, infection or neuropathy. Our integrated approach to limb preservation helps reduce the number of amputations needed as a result of diabetic complications.
Burn care
As part of our wound care programs, burn care for all ages is an integral part of the continuum of care at our hospitals. Additionally, our HCA HealthONE Swedish Burn and Reconstructive Center offers access to burn care specialists and innovative technology to treat many types of severe burns.
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