Wound Treatment Options

The Baylor Garland Wound and Hyperbaric Medicine Center offers advanced treatment options to help your wound heal. Your wound care physician and care team will determine the appropriate therapies for you and recommend a course of treatment. Some of the other treatment options available at the Center include:

• Bio-Engineered Tissue Substitutes – materials made in a laboratory used to cover open wounds. These materials are used to reduce bacterial build up, reduce pain or achieve the proper moisture balance within the wound.
• Debridement – surgical removal of dead (necrotic) skin
• Dressings and Wraps – used by wound care physicians to facilitate wound healing. These can include compression stockings for venous leg ulcers, special products for wound odor control and materials that promote naturally occurring tissue growth factors.
• Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
• Negative Pressure Wound Therapy – the controlled application of sub-atmospheric pressure to a wound using specialized equipment to intermittently or continuously convey negative pressure to promote wound healing. Negative pressure therapy removes fluids and infectious materials, helps protect the wound environment, helps promote blood and oxygen flow and helps draw together wound edges.
• Transcutaneous Oxygen Monitoring (TCPO2) – a diagnostic tool that measures the amount of oxygen present in the tissue in and around the wound site. TCPO2 monitoring can also be a predictor of whether hyperbaric oxygen treatment can be effective in stimulating wound healing.

Among the physicians on the medical staff at Baylor Garland who work with the Baylor Wound Center are endovascular surgeons who are specially trained in diagnosing and treating blood flow issues that can often cause non-healing wounds. While many patients with poor blood-flow issues respond well to medication, when arterial blood flow remains a significant concern, these surgeons can perform minimally invasive procedures to remove the plaque that restricts blood flow to the legs and feet. These surgeons also perform endovenous laser therapy (EVLT) to varicose veins to improve venous blood flow back to the heart which improves the venous ulcer healing and helps prevent future leg wounds. If these minimally invasive procedures are not appropriate for you, your wound care physician may consider arterial bypass and other vascular procedures.

Physicians on the medical staff at Baylor Garland offer care management from initial diagnosis or second opinion and consultation through follow-up care.

If you are diagnosed with a non-healing wound, your personal physician or a Baylor Garland clinical coordinator can make a referral to a physician on the medical staff at Baylor Garland. Patients can find a physician by calling 1-800-4BAYLOR (422-9567) or by searching our on-line physician directory.

Research
Baylor is currently involved in several studies to determine better ways to diagnose and treat a variety of conditions. Find information on trials being conducted by searching our on-line listing.