Wound care and hyperbaric medicine - Plainview Hospital
Care areas
About
The wound care and hyperbaric medicine department at Plainview Hospital, part of Northwell Health, treats acute and chronic wounds and has four hyperbaric oxygen chambers on site. Its team includes specially trained hyperbaric physicians, certified hyperbaric nurses and technologists, and specialists in vascular surgery, plastic surgery, podiatry and infectious disease. It performs vascular studies on site and lists diabetic foot ulcers, radiation injuries and carbon monoxide poisoning among its areas of focus. The hospital states that the program is accredited by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society.
Clinic services
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Chronic wound management
- Vascular studies
Conditions
- Non-healing wounds complicated by diabetes (including diabetic foot ulcers)
- Radiation injuries
- Severe skin and bone infections
- Compromised surgical skin grafts and flaps at risk of not healing
- Crush injuries
- Pressure ulcers
- Wounds associated with poor circulation
- Post-surgical wound complications
- Severe anemia when blood transfusions cannot be used
- Severe and large burns
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Decompression sickness
- Gas gangrene
- Sudden complete hearing loss without a known cause
- Sudden painless vision loss in one eye from blocked blood flow
Planning your visit
Appointments are made by calling the department. Vascular studies are performed on hospital premises, and the vascular lab has a separate phone line.
Nearby clinics
Within 25 miles
- Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Wound Healing at St. Joseph Hospital
Bethpage, NY
Hospital Wound Care Center
Approx. 3.4 mi away
- NYU Langone Hyperbaric & Wound Care Associates—Mineola
Mineola, NY
Hospital Wound Care Center
Approx. 8.8 mi away
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