Leading-Edge Wound Care in Southeast Missouri
The Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center at Saint Francis Medical Center is a specialized center for the treatment of chronic wounds. Certified medical specialists with advanced training in wound management use leading-edge technology and therapies to treat wounds that have resisted conventional treatment.
The indications for wound care include:
- Diabetic ulcers
- Neuropathic ulcers
- Pressure ulcers
- Ischemic ulcers
- Venous insufficiency
- Traumatic wounds
- Surgical wounds
- Vasculitis
- Burns
- Peristomal skin irritations
- Other chronic, non-healing wounds
The Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center provides a multidisciplinary approach to wound management on an outpatient basis. A team of vascular surgeons and other Saint Francis Medical Center staff work together to identify the specific cause of a patient’s non-healing wound before developing an individualized treatment plan.
Services offered include:
- Wound evaluation, diagnostics and ongoing treatment
- Non-invasive vascular studies
- Specialty wound dressings
- Cellular and tissue-based products
- Compression therapy
- Treatment of wound infections
- Patient and family education
- Pressure off-loading devices and footwear
- Debridements
- Negative pressure wound therapy
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
With an appropriate diagnosis, Medicare, Medicaid and most major insurers cover wound care and hyperbaric treatment.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Heals Wounds, Saves Lives
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is appropriate for patients with severe wound ischemia or tissue damage. Having patients breathe 100-percent pure oxygen at increased atmospheric pressures increases the oxygen level in the tissues, which promotes healing and helps fight infection.
When combined with appropriate conventional wound care such as debridement, antibiotics, edema control and pressure relief, many previously non-healing wounds can be successfully managed. More specifically, the FDA approves 15 recognized treatment indications. Mmost are reimbursed by CMP and private payers when the patient meets other medical necessity criteria.
- Acute traumatic peripheral ischemia
- Crush injuries, compartment syndrome and other acute traumatic ischemias
- Progressive necrotizing infection
- Acute peripheral arterial insufficiency
- Compromised grafts and flaps
- Chronic refractory osteomyelitis
- Osteoradionecrosis
- Soft-tissue radionecrosis
- Actinomycosis
- Diabetic wounds of the lower extremities
- Acute carbon-monoxide intoxication
- Decompression illness
- Gas embolism
- Gas gangrene
- Cyanide poisoning
Adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen therapy cannot improve healing in all problem wounds. However, those demonstrating reversible local tissue hypoxia and poor response to local infection will frequently benefit from this therapy, when applied in a system of advanced local wound care, appropriate antibiotics and control of systemic host factors.
Hours
| Monday: | 8 am | - | 4:30 pm |
| Tuesday: | 8 am | - | 4:30 pm |
| Wednesday: | 8 am | - | 4:30 pm |
| Thursday: | 8 am | - | 4:30 pm |
| Friday: | 8 am | - | 4:30 pm |
Contact
No referral is needed. To make an appointment, call 573-331-5330.
