The Good Samaritan Center for Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine is a hospital-based outpatient service located in Stoughton, Massachusetts.
Circumstances that require wound care include, but are not limited to:
- Ulcers (pressure, diabetic, neuropathic or ischemic)
- Surgical wounds
- Vasculitis
- Burns
- Peristomal skin irritations
- Soft tissue radionecrosis
- Actinomycosis
- Preservation of compromised skin grafts and flaps
- Crush injury/acute traumatic peripheral ischemia
- Progressive necrotizing infections (necrotizing fasciitis)
- Osteoradionecrosis
- Traumatic wounds
A variety of treatment options are available depending on type and severity of a wound, including:
- Infectious disease management
- Vascular evaluation
- Laboratory evaluation
- Nutritional management
- Pain management
- Diabetic education
- Debridement
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Low Frequency ultrasound
- Bioengineered tissue placement
- Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
- Compression Therapy
The Chambers
The hyperbaric chambers are non-invasive, clear acrylic chambers that provide 100 percent oxygen to promote the optimum healing opportunity. While breathing pure oxygen, the patient's blood plasma becomes saturated, carrying 20 to 30 times the normal amount of oxygen to the body's tissue. The ultimate result is the body's natural, oxygen-dependent wound healing mechanisms are able to function more efficiently. Continued use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases the body's immune and healing response.
Conditions that may benefit from hyperbaric oxygen therapy include:
- Diabetic wounds of the lower extremity
- Wounds that have not healed in several weeks
- Post-radiation tissue injury
- Diabetes-related foot and ankle ulcers
- Crash injuries
- Wounds caused by poor circulation or trauma
- Compromised grafts and flaps
- Gangrene
- Pressure ulcers
- Necrotizing soft tissue infections
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Acute traumatic peripheral ischemia
- Compromised skin grafts and flaps
- Osteomyelitis
- Actinomycosis
Our Team
-
Richard McArdle, MD
Urology -
Paul A. Sergi, MD
Surgical Services -
Christopher J. Corey, MD
Vascular Medicine, Vascular Surgery, Surgical Services -
Warren Nickerson, MD
General Surgery
Steward Health Care