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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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