While many wounds are easily treatable at home and heal on their own, some require specialized treatment. UConn Health’s Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine offers patients advanced wound treatment and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Wound Care
Proper wound care is critical for hard-to-heal or non-healing wounds. These wounds may result from pressure, trauma, or infection. If not treated, they can grow into more significant health and quality-of-life issues, such as limb amputations or even life-threatening infections. Underlying conditions like diabetes, circulation problems, and radiation treatment can cause chronic wound problems.
Each wound patient referred to UConn Health is closely assessed and receives a customized treatment plan to address the underlying cause of their condition and accelerate the healing of their wound.
Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Providers
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy is an outpatient, doctor-prescribed medical treatment to enhance the body’s ability to heal. It is provided in a private, state-of-the-art chamber to speed up a wound’s healing.
HBO uses oxygen under pressure to enhance the body’s natural ability to heal. Patients breathe 100% oxygen inside a chamber pressurized at two-to-three times greater than atmospheric pressure. The treatment causes an increase in plasma and tissue oxygen, which stimulates angiogenesis, the process of new blood vessels forming, and fights infection to speed healing. In most cases, HBO is prescribed in addition to primary treatment but is considered the primary treatment for a few conditions.
UConn Health’s HBO Areas of Expertise
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Chronic bone infections (osteomyelitis)
- Non-healing surgical skin flaps and grafts
- Radiation therapy symptoms (pain, wounds, rectal or bladder bleeding)
- Crush injuries
- Certain types of sudden hearing loss
- Sudden vision loss
Our expansive expertise includes patient access to UConn Health’s vascular surgery, limb salvage, infection prevention, plastic surgery, and podiatry services.
Location
UConn Health Procedures Center
150 Academic Way
Farmington, CT 06030
860-679-2420