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Wound and Hyperbaric Medicine

AnMed Health Wound and Hyperbaric Medicine
2000 East Greenville St., Suite 5110
Anderson, SC 29621
864.512.4442

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At AnMed Health Wound and Hyperbaric Medicine, Upstate residents can finally receive wound care and hyperbaric oxygen closer to home. Staffed by a team of specialists, this facility will house two Sechrist monoplace hyperbaric chambers and all of AnMed Health's professional wound care services.

What is hyperbaric oxygen therapy?
Patients relax in a pressurized chamber as their body receives two to three times the amount of oxygen they could inhale by breathing 100 percent oxygen. This high pressure dose increases the amount of oxygen in the bloodstream and facilitates the healing of damaged tissue.

Benefits of hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Hyperbaric oxygen allows for:

  • Increased oxygen delivery to injured tissue
  • Greater blood vessel formation
  • Advanced wound healing
  • Improved infection control
  • Preservation of damaged tissues
  • Elimination of toxic substances
  • Reduced effects from toxic substances
  • Reduction or elimination of tissue obstruction by gas bubbles

Candidates for hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Hyperbaric oxygen is used to treat a variety of conditions from smoke inhalation to crush injuries to hard-to-heal diabetic wounds. Common conditions treated by hyperbaric oxygen therapy include:

  • Radiation tissue damage
  • Preparation for tooth extraction or surgery in areas previously treated with radiation
  • Decompression sickness from diving accidents
  • Air or gas embolism
  • Compromised (hypoxic or ischemic) wounds
  • Osteomyelitis (refractory)
  • Clostridial myonecrosis (gas gangrene)
  • Comprised skin grafts and muscle flaps
  • Crush injuries, compartment syndrome or acute traumatic ischemia
  • Intracranial abscess
  • Exceptional blood loss

Treatments are individualized to each patient. On average, most people receive 20 to 30 treatments in one course of therapy.

Wound and foot care
AnMed Health Wound and Hyperbaric Medicine also provides outpatient, professional foot care services. Foot care is performed by a specially trained or Certified Wound and Foot Care Nurse, certified by the Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nursing Certification Board (WOCNCB). 

Physician referral is required for appointments.

 

 



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