About McLaren Flint’s Wound Care Center
If you have a wound that hasn't improved in a month or more, you may benefit from the services of the McLaren Flint’s Wound Care Center. A longtime leader in wound care centers, McLaren Flint’s Wound Care Center offers specialized treatment for patients suffering from hard to heal wounds. Our highly skilled medical team is comprised of caring professionals working together to provide comprehensive, individualized wound care management and treatment. These include an inter-disciplinary staff of wound physicians encompassing the specialties of vascular surgery, general surgery, infectious disease, plastic surgery, dermatology, and podiatry; many are certified in wound care. Our team of physicians, wound care nurses, nurse case managers, LPN's, medical assistants, and technicians are extensively trained in advanced wound care techniques - with patient healing the top priority. We were also the first hospital in the region to offer Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBO).
About Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Oxygen is essential for life and healing. Your body needs oxygen to survive. When tissue is damaged, even more oxygen is needed for healing. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases the amount of oxygen in your blood, which helps your body fight infection and stimulates healing.
During HBOT, the patient breathes pure oxygen in a pressurized chamber. The air pressure in the chamber is slowly and safely increased to up to three times the normal air pressure. This enables the lungs to gather more oxygen than would be possible breathing pure oxygen at a normal air pressure.
After a series of treatments in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, patients often see improved healing of chronic wounds. HBOT can be used in combination with other wound treatments. It is most commonly used to treat:
- Diabetic foot wounds
- Necrotizing soft tissue infections
- Chronic bone infections (osteomyelitis)
- Compromised skin grafts and flaps
- Crush injuries and traumatic wounds
- Radiation tissue damage
Beyond treatment of chronic wounds, hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is used to treat carbon monoxide poisoning and smoke inhalation.