QUINCY – To improve its ability to meet the need for chronic care for locally wounds, Hospital Injury replaced the two oxygen hyperbaric therapy chambers (HBO) in its healing and hyperbaric sores center with the latest technologies.
HBO therapy works by surrounding a patient with 100% oxygen twice higher than the normal atmospheric pressure. The skin absorbs air in the chamber, allowing blood circulation to transport larger quantities of oxygen to organs and body tissues, which helps injuries, especially infected injuries, heal from the inside.
Relaxed on a bed locked in a large transparent plastic shell, patients can watch movies on televisions mounted above the room while hearing the films and conversing with others outside the room via a system of speakers. The only physical feeling resulting from treatment is a slight pressure on the eardrum, like this, an airplane.
HBO therapy can also be used to treat patients with radiotherapy, chronic bone infections, other chronic wounds and sudden neurosensory loss.
The wound Wound Healingand Hyperbaric Center has provided HBO for 20 years. He also conducts vascular studies, tissue cultivation and pathology, revascularization, skin transplant and clinical or surgical debridement to treat chronic wounds.
Due to an aging population and an increasing number of people living with heart disease, diabetes and obesity, the need for specialized wound care increases. According to University of Pittsburgh Research, chronic and difficult to heal injuries affect more than 10 million people in the United States.
To find out more, visit Injuringhealth.org/wound-care-and-hyperbaric-Tentr.