Center for Hyperbarics and Wound Care - Bluffton/Hilton Head
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About
The Center for Hyperbarics and Wound Care at Moss Creek Village is the Bluffton/Hilton Head location of St. Joseph's/Candler's outpatient, non-emergency wound care program. It treats acute and chronic non-healing wounds, including burns, diabetic and pressure ulcers, and surgical and traumatic wounds, using hyperbaric oxygen therapy alongside advanced dressings, skin substitutes, compression therapy and casting. Its team includes physicians trained in wound management and hyperbaric medicine, certified wound care nurses, clinical hyperbaric technicians and, at this location, ostomy nurses.
Clinic services
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Wound and hyperbaric evaluation
- Advanced wound dressings
- Bio-engineered skin grafting and skin substitutes
- Compression therapy
- Casting for diabetic foot ulcers
- Noninvasive vascular testing
- Chronic swelling management
- Pressure relief and offloading
- Diabetic education
- Nutritional counseling
- Patient and caregiver wound-care counseling
- Ostomy care
Conditions
- Acute and chronic non-healing wounds
- Burns
- Diabetic ulcers
- Peristomal skin irritations
- Pressure ulcers
- Traumatic wounds
- Surgical wounds
- Wounds associated with vasculitis
- Wounds associated with venous insufficiency
- Radiation-damaged tissue
- Radiation cystitis
- Radiation proctitis
- Osteoradionecrosis
- Breast flaps compromised by radiation therapy
Planning your visit
Physician referrals are not required; patients or their physicians may call the center for a wound or hyperbaric evaluation.
The center is an outpatient, non-emergency facility. St. Joseph's/Candler says HBOT treatment length depends on the diagnosis and that most treatments take about 120 minutes. The team builds an individualized treatment plan and offers wound management and prevention counseling for patients and caregivers. The health system's Smart Living magazine describes the chamber as a bed that slides into a large, clear plastic tube; patients breathe normally, can sleep or watch television, and may feel a sensation similar to flying in an airplane as the pressure rises, which swallowing or yawning can relieve. For radiation-damaged tissue, the article gives a typical course of 30 to 40 sessions, one each weekday over six to eight weeks.
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