Wound Care – KRMC

At Kingman Regional Medical Center (KRMC), people with chronic wounds can benefit from first-rate wound care. Our Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Center provides advanced technologies and techniques for treating problem wounds.

An estimated 6.5 million Americans suffer with wounds that are not healing well, called chronic wounds. Elderly people or people with diabetes or other vascular disease are most affected by chronic wounds. Especially, wounds resulting from trauma, surgery, burns, skin grafting, and radiation therapy.

Chronic wounds are especially prone to serious bacterial infections. If unrecognized and untreated, chronic wounds can lead to amputation of a limb or possible life-threating complications.

When referring you to wound care, your doctor will order tests to identify possible infection and blood flow to the wound area. At the KRMC Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Center, a wound care specialist will review your general health history and your test results. Our team will develop an individual program for your treatment, which may include:

The word hyperbaric literally means increased (hyper) pressure (baric). The pressure in the chamber forces oxygen to tissues and accelerates the bodys healing process.

The chamber itself is made of clear Plexiglas and patients comfortably watch television while inside. The treatment is noiseless and painless.

Hyperbaric therapy was first developed by the U.S. military in the early 1930s for treating decompression sickness (known as the bends) in deep sea divers. Since then, the technology has shown remarkable benefits for treating other health conditions.

In the late 1990s, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for treating problem wounds. Statistical evidence shows that the therapy is one of the safest and most effective ways to promote healing. Specifically, the therapy:

Wound care treatment using hyperbaric oxygen requires a substantial time commitment. On average, patients need forty 90-minute dives in our hyperbaric oxygen chamber, five-days-a-week, over a period of eight weeks.

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