North Mississippi Wound Center-Tupelo
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About
North Mississippi Wound Center-Tupelo, also known as NMMC Wound Center and Hyperbarics, is the wound care and hyperbaric medicine center of North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, part of North Mississippi Health Services. It belongs to the Healogics network of Wound Care Centers, and its medical director is Dr. Dwight McComb. Care is provided by a licensed physician and nurses trained in wound care and hyperbaric medicine. Alongside hyperbaric oxygen therapy, the center lists negative pressure wound therapy, total contact casting and bio-engineered tissues among its treatments.
Clinic services
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Comprehensive wound assessment
- Patient and family education
- Debridement
- Ongoing wound treatment
- Compression therapy
- Photographic progress report
- Negative pressure wound therapy
- Total contact casting
- Bio-engineered tissues
- Biosynthetic dressings
- Growth factor therapies
Conditions
- Diabetic ulcers of the lower extremities
- Necrotizing soft tissue infections
- Crush injuries
- Radiation injury
- Skin grafts and flaps
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Chronic osteomyelitis
- Acute peripheral arterial insufficiency
- Decompression sickness
- Traumatic peripheral ischemia
- Burns
- Air or gas embolism
- Gas gangrene
- Wounds caused by diabetes
- Wounds caused by poor circulation
- Wounds caused by pressure
- Wounds caused by infection
- Wounds caused by surgery
- Wounds caused by venous insufficiency
- Wounds caused by trauma
- Wounds caused by radiation damage
- Other chronic wounds
Planning your visit
North Mississippi Wound Centers see patients referred by a primary care physician, patients continuing care after a hospital discharge, and self-referred patients.
NMHS says its wound center team can help when a wound has not started to heal within two weeks or has not fully healed within six weeks. Appointments can be made by phone or through the myConnection (MyChart) patient portal. Patients lie in a pressurized chamber and breathe 100% oxygen, and can sleep or watch television during treatment. Before treatment starts, staff teach patients how to relieve ear pressure, and a nurse stays with the patient throughout, adjusting the rate of compression to the patient's tolerance. Compression to the prescribed pressure usually takes 10–15 minutes, and the rest of the treatment may last 90 minutes to two hours, followed by a gradual decompression. The number of treatments depends on each patient's needs: some emergency cases need a few, while some wound cases need 20–40. Treatment is generally given once a day, five days a week. Possible risks are discussed with the patient before therapy begins.
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