Every year, chronic wounds caused by diabetes, insect bites, pressure ulcers, trauma or other conditions keep 3 to 5 million people from leading their normal lives. The Wound Care Center at Northern Nevada Medical Center can help.
The Wound Care Center at Northern Nevada Medical Center offers advanced treatment using leading edge scientific advances in wound care, including two hyperbaric chambers for stubborn wounds that require oxygen therapy. The Wound Care Center is a hospital-based outpatient service staffed by a multidisciplinary team of doctors and nurses who focus on treating nonhealing wounds.
If you have a sore or wound that hasn't started to heal in a month, or healed entirely in two months, you should ask your doctor about The Wound Care Center at Northern Nevada Medical Center, or call 775-352-5353.
How Nonhealing Wounds Are Treated
Northern Nevada Medical Center offers a variety of treatment options, depending on the type and severity of nonhealing wounds. Your treatment may include the following therapies:
- Infectious disease management
- Physical therapy
- Vascular evaluation
- Laboratory evaluation
- Nutritional management
- Pain management
- Diabetic education
- Nuclear medicine
- Radiology
- Debridement (removal of dead or infected tissue)
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy