STHS Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine
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About
St. Tammany Health System’s Clinic for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine is an outpatient clinic at the health system’s Paul D. Cordes Outpatient Pavilion in Covington. John Kessels, MD, has led the clinic since it opened in 2003. Each patient receives a diagnostic examination to identify the type of wound and its underlying cause, followed by an individual care plan, while the patient’s own physician continues to manage overall medical needs. Treatments include debridement, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, TCOM circulation assessment and bioengineered skin substitutes.
Clinic services
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Diagnostic wound assessment
- Debridement
- Transcutaneous oximetry (TCOM)
- Bioengineered skin substitutes
- Conventional and specialty wound dressings
- Compression therapy
- Total contact casting
Conditions
- Diabetes-related wounds (including lower-extremity diabetic wounds)
- Burns
- Pressure ulcers
- Traumatic wounds, including crush injuries
- Non-healing surgical wounds
- Venous or arterial insufficiency wounds
- Cancer-associated wounds
- Immunological-disorder-associated wounds
- Radiation injury of tissue and bone (including osteoradionecrosis and soft tissue radionecrosis)
- Osteomyelitis (including chronic refractory osteomyelitis)
- Gangrene
- Soft tissue infections
Planning your visit
Treatment begins with a diagnostic examination that determines the wound type and its underlying causes, after which the care team sets up a treatment program for the individual patient. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy takes place in a pressurized chamber, where the patient breathes 100 percent oxygen.
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