Wound Services
Special care for slow-healing wounds
St. Luke's highly trained wound care team specializes in care of slow-
or non-healing wounds. Working with specialty physicians, the team creates
individual care plans to heal wounds acquired from vascular surgery, general
surgery, plastic surgery, pressure ulcers and diabetic ulcers. We educate
patients and families on how to care for wounds at home to support a faster,
more stable healing process.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBO)
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBO) is a medical treatment that enhances the
body’s natural healing process by providing patients 100 percent
oxygen for breathing in a transparent body chamber. Pressure in the hyperbaric
chamber is increased and controlled to help improve oxygen delivery to
all tissues in the body. This also helps to reduce swelling, fight infection,
build new blood vessels and, ultimately, produce healthy tissue. HBO is
for patients with chronic, non-healing wounds who have tried other forms
of wound care treatment.
We treat a range of conditions, including:
- Venous stasis ulcers
- Arterial ulcers
- Diabetic (neuropathic) ulcers
- Pressure ulcers
- Chronic wounds
- Acute wounds not responding to therapy
- Draining wounds
- Fistulas
- Wound dressing changes
- Wound VAC care
- Burns
- Gangrene
- Diabetic wounds
- Surgical wounds
- Trauma wounds
- Radiation tissue damage
- Lymphedema