Center for Wound Healing & Hyperbarics
Care areas
About
The Center for Wound Healing & Hyperbarics in Hickory is part of Catawba Valley Health System and works with Healogics alongside community physicians to build care plans for patients with chronic wounds. Its listed providers include general and vascular surgeons, a podiatrist and physician assistants. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is offered as an adjunctive treatment for certain problem wounds and is prescribed by the center's physicians; other listed therapies include negative pressure therapy, skin substitutes, epidermal autografting and debridement.
Clinic services
- Wound care
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Negative pressure wound therapy
- Skin substitutes (growth factor therapy)
- Epidermal autografting
- Debridement
- Specialty topical wound treatment
- Interventional testing
- Specialty consultations
- Specialized offloading
Conditions
- Actinomycosis
- Acute peripheral arterial insufficiency
- Acute traumatic peripheral ischemia
- Bone infections (including chronic refractory osteomyelitis)
- Compromised skin grafts and skin flaps
- Crush injuries and reattachment of severed limbs
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Diabetic wounds of the lower extremity
- Gangrene (including gas gangrene)
- Osteoradionecrosis
- Progressive necrotizing infections
- Soft tissue radiation injury
- Radiation injury
- Lower leg ulcers
- Pressure ulcers
- Skin tears or lacerations
- Radiation burns
- Post-operative infected wounds
- Slow or non-healing surgical wounds
- Venous insufficiency and venous disease
- Arterial disease
- Edema
- Ischemia
- Malignancy-related wounds
- Wounds with necrotic debris
- Soft tissue infection
- Varicose veins
- Wounds over 30 days old failing multiple treatments
Planning your visit
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy at the center is prescribed by its physicians, and trained technicians manage the chambers. According to a patient article on the health system's site, patients change into a 100% cotton medical gown and lie on a table that slides into a clear chamber roughly 7 feet long. They breathe normally during treatment and may watch television or listen to music, and a therapist can see and speak with them the whole time. A typical session lasts up to two hours, after which technicians slowly bring the chamber back to normal pressure.
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