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Center For Wound Management
Treats First Hyperbaric Patient.

At exactly five minutes to noon, Monday through Friday, Barb McDonald from the hospital’s gift shop begins to prepare the grilled cheese sandwich for the order she knows is about to come.

At noon, a Center for Wound Management staff member delivers Andrew Sedory of Monessen to his table following his hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) at the hospital’s Center on the fourth floor and he places his order.

Mr. Sedory, 92, was the first patient to benefit from the installation of hyperbaric oxygen therapy equipment at the Center.

Richard Young, D.P.M., the Center’s co-medical director, noted that Mr. Sedory has seen “noticeable improvement in a short period of time.”

“Andy has responded very well to the treatments,” he said. “With this equipment, we are using oxygen as medicine.

“Most patients receive between two and three atmospheres of oxygen. It’s as if we are submerging them in 33 to 66 feet of water,” he said. “Andy receives two atmospheres of 100 percent oxygen for 90 minutes.”

Prior to the hyperbaric oxygen therapy, Sedory’s foot wound was treated with traditional approaches for more than two months with little improvement. He is now on a regimen of 30 HBOT treatments and is about half way through.

When asked how he feels about the new procedure Sedory noted, “Parts are healing. If it works, and it seems to be, I love it.

“During the treatment you have to keep swallowing or your ears plug up,” he said. “Watching TV and relaxing helps to pass the time in the chamber.”

Sedory, a retired Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel blast furnace supervisor who lives alone in Monessen, is transported to and from the hospital every day via the hospital’s free outpatient van transportation service. He eats his grilled cheese lunch while waiting for his ride home.