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Waterbury HEALTH on July 10 announced the opening of the Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine at Waterbury Hospital, an outpatient facility offering a comprehensive approach for patients with non-healing wounds. Patients at the Center are examined by a multidisciplinary staff trained in wound care and evaluated for all possible physical conditions, such as diabetes, that could interfere with proper healing. The care team develops individual treatment plans, utilizing the most effective technologies available to provide maximum healing and relief.
The highly-skilled team features physicians, nurses and technicians with advanced training in wound care and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO). HBO promotes healing by increasing the level of oxygen in the tissue and improving the healing efficiency of the white blood cells.
Especially beneficial for diabetic patients with non-healing ulcers, as well as those with arterial ulcers and other types of wounds that fail to respond to conservative therapy, HBO is also a treatment for conditions without open wounds, such as osteomyelitis, radionecrosis and osteoradionecrosis.
Therapy is administered in a hyperbaric chamber that delivers 100 percent oxygen with increased atmospheric pressure, stimulating the entire body’s natural healing responses. Patients undergoing therapy have complete privacy in comfortable, individual chambers equipped with televisions and headphones for patient entertainment.
Patients who are prescribed HBO typically require treatment five days a week for two-hour sessions. Each session requires 10 to 15 minutes to reach the necessary atmospheric pressure before a 90-minute treatment and then another 10 to 15 minutes to return to normal atmospheric pressure.
The Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine at Waterbury Hospital is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information about wound care or to schedule an appointment, call 203-573-7025.
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