Advanced Wound Care

Hyperbaric Medicine

In a continuing effort to improve patient care, the wound clinic offers Hyperbaric Medicine as an integral part of its specialized wound care treatments.

Hyperbaric Medicine is administered to patients in a comfortable, spacious chamber pressurized with 100% pure oxygen.

The oxygen-rich environment allows the body’s natural wound-healing mechanisms to function more effectively, dramatically speeding up the healing process of chronic wounds.

Approved Hyperbaric Medicine Indications:

Plastic surgery includes both reconstructive and aesthetic (cosmetic) procedures: Reconstructive plastic surgery. In general, reconstructive surgery is performed on abnormal structures of the body that may be caused by the following:

• Air or gas embolism
• Carbon monoxide poisoning
• Clostridial myonecrosis (gas gangrene
• Crush injury, compartment syndrome, acute traumatic ischemia
• Decompression sickness
• Enhancement of healing in select problem wounds
• Exceptional blood loss (anemia)
• Intracranial abscess
• Necrotizing soft tissue infections
• Osteomyelitis
• Delayed radiation injury (soft tissue and bony necrosis)
• Skin grafts and flaps compromised)
• Thermal burns

High Healing Rate, Reduced Healing Time

Using a team of multidisciplinary specialists and state-of-the-art wound care techniques, the wound center achieves some of the best healing rates and fastest healing times in the nation. This means you can get back to living your life the way you want in the shortest time possible.

Continuum of Care

In a continuing effort to improve patient care, the Advanced Wound Care Clinics will offer a system of care for the Omaha/Council Bluffs region. Services include:

• Inpatient Services
• Ostomy Care
• Outpatient Services
• Hyperbaric Medicine
• Research

Proven to significantly reduce length of stay for conditions such as:

• Cellulitis
• Diabetic Foot Ulcers with Infection
• Pressure Ulcers
• Radiation Proctitis

Comprehensive outpatient wound treatment for acute and chronic wounds, ostomy and continence care.

Conditions

• Ulcers due to pressure, diabetes, neuropathy, or non-healing surgical wounds
• Vasculitis, Panniculitis, and Cellulitis
• Minor burns
• Soft tissue radionecrosis (radiation burns), compromised skin grafts, and flaps
• Traumatic wounds
• Lower extremity ulcerations
• Problematic fistulas or drain tubes
• Ostomy and peristomal skin care
• Incontinence and Incontinent skin care

Treatments

• Screening
• Negative pressure wound therapy
• Topical antimicrobial therapy
• Compression therapy
• Grafts
• Sharp, mechanical, chemical and autolytic debridement as well as low-frequency ultrasonic mist therapy/debridement

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Our Wound Ostomy Care team helps with conditions such as:

• Wounds/ulcers due to pressure, diabetes, neuropathy or non-healing surgical wounds
• Vasculitis, Panniculitis and Cellulitis
• Minor burns
• Skin tears
• Lower extremity wounds 
• Venous ulcers
• Soft tissue radionecrosis (radiation burns)
• Compromised skin grafts and flaps
• Traumatic wounds
• Problematic fistulas or drain tubes
• Ostomy and peristomal skin care 
• Ostomy teaching and fitting 
• Incontinence and incontinent skin care

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The CHI Health St. Elizabeth Burn Center, the region’s first and only dedicated burn trauma unit, continues to save lives throughout the multi-state region. We maintain verification by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Burn Association (ABA). This status validates our excellence.

This special designation offers burn patients and the community:

• Specialized care, services, equipment and staff trained to treat the most critical burn injuries.
• Expert treatment of complicated skin disorders, such as Stevens Johnson Syndrome and complex wound care.
• Leadership in research, education and prevention.
• Resource for training, education and physical therapy care at our Regional Hospitals and Emergency Medicine Services. 

We also offer:

• Advanced Laser Scar Therapy
• Ostomy Outpatient Clinic
• SOAR Program
• Advanced Burn Life Support Courses

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