WakeMed Wound Care - Cary
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About
WakeMed Wound Care - Cary is an outpatient comprehensive wound healing center run by WakeMed Health & Hospitals at the Medical Park of Cary. It treats non-healing and difficult-to-heal wounds, including diabetic foot ulcers, venous and pressure ulcers, and late effects of radiation, and offers hyperbaric oxygen therapy in a monoplace chamber. Its multidisciplinary team includes general physicians, vascular and plastic surgeons, podiatrists and infectious disease physicians, working with nurses and technicians trained in wound care.
Clinic services
- Wound assessment and treatment
- Infection control
- Restoration of blood flow
- Wound debridement
- Offloading
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Cellular and tissue-based products (skin substitutes)
- Compression therapy
- Foot reconstruction
- Skin grafts and flaps
- Diagnostic testing (vascular testing, blood tests, x-rays)
- Nutritional evaluation
- Specialized dressings
- Pressure-relieving devices
- Patient education
Conditions
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Venous ulcers
- Pressure ulcers
- Non-healing surgical wounds
- Arterial and ischemic ulcers
- Late radiation injuries (including radiation cystitis, proctitis and external wounds)
- Traumatic wounds
- Infected wounds
- Crush injuries
- Compromised flaps and grafts
- Chronic bone infections (osteomyelitis)
- Certain types of sudden hearing loss
- Sudden vision loss
- Thermal burns
Planning your visit
The first wound-care visit includes a wound evaluation and a review of medical history, and some patients need tests of circulation or infection. Once a treatment plan is prescribed, patients return weekly for treatment and documentation of healing progress, follow the wound team’s home-care instructions and keep regular appointments with their primary-care physician. HBOT sessions last 90–120 minutes depending on the condition being treated, and patients typically receive HBOT five days a week for about four to six weeks; a staff member confirms how many treatments are needed. Patients wear a hospital gown in the chamber and can nap or watch television while in constant communication with the hyperbaric specialist. Cosmetics, perfumes, hair preparations, deodorants, wigs, jewelry and electronic devices are not allowed in the chamber; most pacemakers are allowed. Patients should tell the hyperbaric technologist about all medications, including non-prescription drugs, and avoid alcohol and carbonated beverages for four hours before treatment. Because tobacco use interferes with oxygen transport, the doctor works with patients who smoke on stopping during the treatment period.
Nearby clinics
Within 25 miles
- Rex Wound Healing Center, A Department of Rex Hospital
Raleigh, NC
Hospital Wound Care Center
Approx. 7.1 mi away
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