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MVH Enhances Center For Wound Management With Addition Of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.

Center Offers Hope for the Treatment of Chronic Wounds

Every wound is not necessarily chronic, but when a nonhealing wound does occur, it requires special attention. In fact, research has consistently proven that with proper treatment and guidance, even the most persistent wounds can be healed.

Monongahela Valley Hospital has joined with Shared Health Services, Inc., a nationally known provider of hospital based Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Centers, to expand its Center for Wound Management to include Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) at the hospital.

The expanded Center is designed to help heal wounds that are particularly problematic to treat along with assistance to prevent amputation. The Center for Wound Management will provide the most comprehensive, modern and compassionate wound care available. It will continue to offer cutting edge advanced clinical approaches to wound management and, by including Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), patients suffering from chronic wounds will benefit from a highly effective treatment option.

HBOT is an advanced medical treatment which employs oxygen at levels higher than atmospheric pressure to enhance natural healing for the treatment of chronic wounds and for patients whose only previous alternative was amputation.

For those with chronic wounds due to diabetes, poor circulation and/or vascular disease, HBOT is an effective adjunctive therapy to promote faster healing.

“Some of the most chronic wounds occur as complications of a host of medical conditions,” explains Dr. Richard A. Young, the Center’s co-medical director at MVH. Dr. Young cites arterial/venous ulcers, diabetic ulcers, chronic infections, unrelieved pressure sores, traumatic injuries, post-operative complications and radiation injuries as some of the underlying conditions which are frequently responsible for the delayed healing of many chronic wounds and potential amputations.

“Our physicians focus on the source of the wound so that the best treatment plan can be determined,” said Gene W. Manzetti, M.D., the center’s other co-medical director.

Using a multi-disciplinary team of wound care specialists that include general surgeons, podiatrists, infectious disease specialists, vascular surgeons, and highly-skilled certified wound care registered nurses and specially trained hyperbaric technicians, some of the best healing rates and fastest healing times in the nation may be achieved.

During the patient’s visit, the wound care team is able to perform many advanced treatment modalities making it one of the most convenient, comprehensive and sophisticated wound facilities in the region.

For further information or to make an appointment at the Center for Wound Management, please call 724-258-1912.