Mon Health Wound Care
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About
Mon Health Wound Care is part of Mon Health Medical Center's medical services in Morgantown, where a multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses and therapists provides wound care. Dr. Ferdinand Martinez is the medical director of Mon Health Vein and Wound Care. Services include debridement, negative pressure wound therapy, total contact casting, compression therapy and hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which the clinic has offered in Morgantown for over 20 years. Treatment takes place in a clear acrylic chamber, and listed HBOT indications include problem wounds, compromised grafts and flaps, refractory osteomyelitis and delayed radiation injury. Patients may refer themselves for evaluation.
Clinic services
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Wound debridement
- Negative pressure wound therapy
- Wound biopsy
- Total contact casting and offloading
- Amniotic tissue grafting
- Complex dressing changes
- Compression therapy
- Physical therapy
- Custom diabetic footwear
- Ostomy management
- Complete decongestive therapy for lymphedema
Conditions
- Air or gas embolism
- Central retinal artery occlusion
- Enhancement of healing in selected problem wounds
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Clostridial myositis and myonecrosis (gas gangrene)
- Crush injury, compartment syndrome, and other acute traumatic ischemia
- Decompression sickness
- Severe anemia
- Intracranial abscess
- Necrotizing soft tissue infection
- Refractory osteomyelitis
- Delayed radiation injury (soft tissue and bony necrosis)
- Compromised grafts and flaps
- Acute thermal burn injury
- Idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss
- Arterial ulcers
- Burns
- Cellulitis
- Chronic leg swelling and edema
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Gangrene and necrosis
- Non-healing wounds
- Post-operative infection
- Pressure ulcers and bedsores
- Ostomy care needs
- Non-healing surgical wounds
- Vascular insufficiency
- Venous stasis ulcers
- Lymphedema and lipedema
Planning your visit
Patients may refer themselves to the center for evaluation, or their primary care physician can refer them; the clinic says no referral is required for most insurance plans.
Appointments are made by calling the Mon Health Wound Healing Center; callers are asked a few questions about the wound and general health, and same-day appointments are often accommodated. Bring a list of current medications and allergies, any previous medical records and X-rays, and insurance cards or forms. At the first visit the wound specialists evaluate the wound and review medical history; tests may check blood flow, tissue oxygenation and infection. The team then builds a treatment program in cooperation with the patient's primary care physician, with regular visits and instruction in home wound care and dressing changes, and patients continue to see their regular physician. An HBO treatment lasts about 2½ hours, including compression, decompression and 90 minutes at the prescribed treatment depth; treatments are typically once a day, five days a week for most chronic problems, and up to twice a day for acute problems. The clinic says there is no set number of treatments and estimates the course based on the condition. Patients receive an orientation before the first treatment, the chamber has a TV/DVD system and a communication system, and the technician can decompress the chamber early if needed. The clinic is on the second floor, Suite 3201.
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